BEN RIVERS 12 March - 2 May 2010
For his first exhibition at the gallery Ben Rivers has assembled a dwelling from discarded and reclaimed building materials. Inside, his film Origin of the Species (2008) offers a clandestine portrait of an elderly man living in a ramshackle cottage in the wilderness of the Scottish highlands. The man devises his own {...}

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Terms are often misleading. In Chekhov’s Three Sisters one character insists that a word means ;garlic,; while the other says it means ;a meat dish;; they argue at length without admitting that they mean the same thing. - Vsevolod Meyerhold, Chaplin and Chaplinism, The Tulane Drama Review, 1966

The 1950’s American television game show ‘What’s {...}

Riflemaker 79 Beak Street, Soho, London W1 2 March – 24 April 2010
The French/Algerian artist Alice Anderson (b.1976) will fill Riflemaker in Soho with thousands of metres of hair as part of an installation, including film, sculptures and photographs, based on fictional childhood memories from 1 March 2010.

Anderson considers time, or more particularly the way {...}

8 - 24 January 2010
As the title immediately suggests, Julie Umerle’s paintings exist at the meeting point of decision and accident, as indeed do our lives. In a new suite of paintings made specifically for the show, gravity and design collude and collide in a synthesis which calls up a most unexpected counterpart. Colours are chosen to oppose and {...}

Batman Chromogenic Print 40.6 x 50.8 cms (16 x 20 inches)2008
07.01.2010 - 20.02.2010
Elinor Carucci is one of the most celebrated artists working in photography today. Carucci’s fresh take on the established genre of portraiture weaves together intricate strands of the artist’s own life, celebrating moments of intimacy with her extended family; her parents, her husband and most recently, {...}

19 November 2009 to 7 February 2010
This is the first UK exhibition of the two-screen and multi-screen works of revered German filmmaker Harun Farocki. The survey comprises nine video installations, from his first two-screen project Interface in 1995 to Immersion, 2009, about the use of virtual reality in the treatment of traumatised US soldiers following the {...}

One in the Other 45 Vyner Street London E2 9DQ oneintheother.com
One in the Other is pleased to present the work of Günther Herbst in his second solo exhibition at the gallery.

Herbst’s paintings are based on homeless shelters that he has been photographing over a number of years. The materials and textures that make up these shelters, and the {...}

‘ASSEMBLAGE’ by William Blanchard aka ‘Wildcat Will’ Friday 24th April – Wednesday 6th May 2009
You are invited to the PRIVATE VIEW on Thursday 23rd April 6.30 – 10.00.
William Blanchard started his career as a musician with his first band Bruce Wayne and the Batniks (1982-89), a time in which he had a {...}

Who The FUCK Do You Think You Are at The Dazed Gallery Curated by: John Paul Pryor
Friday 6th February - Thursday 2nd April
Who The FUCK Do You Think You Are is an exhibition that explores notions of identity, posing fundamental questions about the shifting, amorphous nature of ‘self’’ in an accelerated society that is increasingly obsessed with celebrity, {...}