Follow

11 Dec 2015-21 Feb 2016

Overview

Follow is a major exhibition presenting a variety of experiences and views of identity, sharing, and micro-celebrity within the context of a life lived online, Follow will explore how we act when everyone is watching. Fame is no longer an aspirational dream and celebrities are no longer created on the exclusive space of the red carpet, but on our Twitter feeds and Facebook walls. We feel closer than ever to being able to reach them, befriend them, become them. But are we? Follow will investigate the use of image and identity as ever-changing concepts which can be bought, sold, mimicked, endorsed, deleted and validated through a single click, and the ways we can survive social media. Like for like, follow for follow. Exhibition highlights include new work by LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner, Cécile B. Evans, Debora Delmar, Joe Orr, Ant Hamlyn, Aram Bartholl, Louise Adkins, Simon Whybray and Candice Jacobs, and restaged work by Constant Dullaart and Kurdwin Ayub.