Art exhibitions
Current Exhibitions
Subversion
A unique group show of new and recent contemporary art that explores and rethinks modern Arab identity. Subversion features work from eleven emerging and established artists who use autobiographical narratives amalgamated with fiction, popular culture and subversive parody to express the dichotomies they face as they perform multiple roles in a society which is frequently represented to the outside world in a contorted and mediated manner.
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Forming a Line/ Rachael Elwell & Tom Harnett O’Meara
Forming A Line brings together two artists based in Manchester and Todmorden who are both using the immediacy of drawing to explore open-ended processes and narratives.
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Coming soon
HOME curated by Tash Willcocks
Featuring Stanley Chow, Andy Votel, Ben Lamb, Tash Willcocks, Robert Shadbolt and a plethora of designers, illustrators, designastrators, photographers and typographers who call, or have once called Manchester their home. Whether beautiful, banal, delightful, destroyed, over-emphasised or underdeveloped, we all have a view of what constitutes an urban or rural nest
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Stanya Kahn: It’s Cool, I’m Good
The first UK solo show of LA-based artist Stanya Kahn features recent video work, drawings and a brand new commission. Absurd, poignant and darkly comic, Kahn’s videos create intimate portraits of compelling subjects as they struggle for success or mere survival despite setbacks, trauma and destabilised senses of self. New commission Who Do You Think Your Are, develops themes or trauma and recovery in her work, exploring the concept of success. The film, which premieres at this exhibition, features a self-styled self-help guru whose relentlessly optimistic monologue thinly conceals her own vulnerability.
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