Situ : 11 Contemporary Artists

18 Aug-3 Sep 2009

Overview

NOAH ANGELL, SIMONA BRINKMANN / DEAN BRANNAGAN, MATT BRYANS, SALLY ANGELA DAVIES, RANA HASSANIEH, CHARLIE HURCOMBE, GLEN JOHNSTON, SOPHIE LOSS, RAOUL SIMPSON, CARL SLATER. Holy Trinity Church has opened its doors to eleven contemporary Artists in an effort to bring greater attention to the building itself - a still opulent specimen of 15th century medieval architecture. In their handling of the space, each artist floats a distinctive conception of the site, responses to its architectural attributes abound- the population of bats inhabiting the church roof, the burial plots under the floors, the sound system and along with it the theatrical role of sound (both oratorical and musical) in the Christian Church, the concepts of light and lightness as they exist in the architecture of the church, and so on. This is an art exhibition in a church that is still in use- a grouping of film, installation, light, sound, sculpture, and photography works which will somehow coexist as reverberations of, or reflections upon the ongoing ritual processions of the church, marking birth, death, marriage, and daily contemplation.