cu·rate Exhibition

cu·rate is a group exhibition that aims to explore contemporary curatorial practice through interdisciplinary collaborations between artist and curator.

cu·rate attempts to open up a new and undiscovered discourse in curating; to define what curating is (or isn’t) today, through the research and display of varied practitioners. The exhibition will feature a range of new commissions, site-specific installations and unseen archive film footage. Whitechapel Gallery curator, Daniel F. Herrmann will comment on the future of curating in a publication that will accompany the exhibition.

cu·rate will be collaborating with moving image and performance artist Dave Charlesworth, who will present a series of films that explore fragmented personal histories. Recent graduate Holly Hendry will be assembling a site-specific installation that explores the space between construction and collapse. Conceptual artist, Cesare Pietroiusti will present a major series of specially commissioned drawings that invite the visitor to become a participant; whilst visual photographer and installation artist James Thurgood will be re-imagining past work, which explores the viewer’s direct relationship with text, image and colour.

An integrated public programme will run throughout the exhibition, which will give opportunity for dialogue between artists, curators and visitors. The programme includes: Cesare Pietroiusti Talk, Friday 2nd May, 12pm; Dave Charlesworth and James Thurgood in conversation, Thursday 8th May, 6pm; Curator’s Tour, Tuesday 13th May, 12pm.