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Eve Dent ‘Staircase’

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SPILL Sunday 8 April SPILL Monday 9 April Doors open 5pm

tickets: day pass £30 / £20 book now: Soho Theatre Box Office 0870 429 6883 Influenced by ideas of embodiment in relation to environment, Dent uses live performance and photography to create body installations that arise out of interactions with architectural structures and spaces - installations exploring the threshold between bodily self and material thing.

She creates images in which all or part of her body is fitted into the very fabric of a room or environment, usually presented live as performed installations, but also existing as photographic works. Often her body is almost completely hidden within the recesses or constructed spaces found within a building: the space under the floor or the flue of a chimney with only part of the body visible. Or she is squeezed into holes or gaps in the material structure - her physical contours against those of the architecture.

Her most recent work in this vein has been the ‘anchor series’, an ongoing body of site-specific improvised works, which began in 2003. Philosophically, this work is based around the idea of the body as a medium through which the hidden poetic life of a site or building, particularly those that may be unseen or overlooked, is expressed.

For her Spill presentation, Dent will present a gallery of collected works: older images will sit alongside her most recent explorations and works in progress. This most recent work seems to herald a move towards placing the body or bodies within a larger landscape and a movement from solo work to work with others. In her own words, “conceptually it feels there is a subtle yet dramatic shift, a shift from merging towards emerging.”

emma wOluKau-wanambwa (uk)

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In an original SPILL commission, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa will create a unique installation in the Shunt Vaults. Making art in a variety of different media and for a diverse range of contexts, in her recent work Wolukau-Wanambwa has been exploring how we, as human beings, construct our environments and how we form our views of the world; and what, in so doing, we see and do not see, remember and forget.

Such investigations will now be applied to this singular London location, a covert landmark in the heart of the city. Drawing her inspiration from the vaults themselves – from their architecture, their uses, and from the discarded traces of human activity that are to be discovered throughout its public and private areas - WolukauWanambwa’s work will take viewers into areas of the vaults that have never before been open to the public. It will encourage them to encounter the building anew and to contemplate its ‘life’.

Artist Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions include: ‘Wandering Star: British-Korean Landscape’ (Gana Gallery, Seoul, South Korea), ‘For One Night Only’ (Camden Arts Centre, London) and ‘The Kinship International Strategy on Surveillance & Suppression’ (Conical Inc. Gallery, Melbourne, Australia). Between 2004 and 2006, she was the holder of an Arts Council London Emerging Artist’s Award. wOrld premiere a spill COmmissiOn

Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa ‘Afromatic’ sponge, hair, glue 2005

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SPILL Sunday 8 April SPILL Monday 9 April Doors open 5pm

tickets: day pass £30 / £20 book now: Soho Theatre Box Office 0870 429 6883

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