Endell Street

Andrea Gohl – Endell Street

The Swiss Church is proud to present the art installation Endell Street by Swiss artist Andrea Gohl. This site-specific work brings together a video installation and accompanying publication.

For over a year, Swiss artist Andrea Gohl has explored Endell street and talked to people about their individual relationships to the place, knowledge of the street and buildings. Through these encounters and conversations parallel histories have evolved over time, portraits of people and place – all evoking their own themes within the local context of a church.

The fact that the street was named Endell Street in 1846, around the same time the church was built, inspired the idea of parallel histories. Taking the Swiss Church, built in 1853, as a geographic departure point, Andrea Gohl went on a journey exploring both a street and a church in transition. The parallel themes and histories serve as material and inspiration for the artist’s present installation and publication. A hostel for the homeless, a community garden, a 19th century pub, the street along with the Swiss Church are some of the sites that are a part of this less travelled parts of the now touristic Covent Garden.

Place, at times, is reflected though a portrait, the biography of a person and their observations. Place is being explored through the surfaces of facades, but place is also the sum or result of historic layers. It’s through different modes of documentation that the artist is attempting to weave together those at times diverging themes: the insular and communal, the local and the transient.


About the artist:

Andrea Gohl’s work is based in photography, video and installation. The investigation into

the spatial processes of the city and possible relationships to place have been a continuous concern. At the core is the question of how the meaning of a site is produced through the personal experience and imagination brought to it, but also through the social, historical, and cultural contexts. Gohl’s work is equally about the observation of urban reality as it is an investigation into the nature of photographic still and moving imagery.

Andrea Gohl received her MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2013. She lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.