Posts Categorized: Exhibitions
‘Office Party’, Fabio Lattanzi Antinori
HS Projects is delighted to present ‘Office Party’, an exhibition of new and recent work by Fabio Lattanzi Antinori that raises questions around the production and consumption of data.
Office Party explores power dynamics, beliefs, and the way our perception of reality is collectively shaped and disseminated within society. Lattanzi Antinori’s work delves into the narratives of data, the agency of digital technology, and how these elements shape the future of society. The artworks in the exhibition are inspired by keywords, a term often used in digital marketing to describe words and phrases searched for by people online.
Every time we look for something online, our search terms are recorded and combined to build a personality profile for each one of us. This data is then used to forecast our future behaviours, predict the products or services we might want to buy, as well as understand and influence our political preferences and social behaviours. Behind the scenes, there exists a vast market that commodifies keywords. These keywords are gathered through elusive intelligent algorithms, creating profiles for everyone, which are then sold to advertisers and private companies. This business model has become dominant among companies, such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo, that bring disruptive proprietary technologies to the masses.
The ‘Keywords Karaoke Machine’ is inspired by the way digital technology is shaping our notion of reality, our idea of history, and the way we interact with each other. The artwork plays songs with lyrics and music generated by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) model, using collected geo-localised (to 12 Hammersmith Grove) keywords. The work will be constantly changing with new text and music experienced through headphones. We can also organise an artist led Karaoke event, when speakers and microphones will be added to allow viewers to actively perform. The objective being to engage with the tenants of the building and any other desired audiences. With a touch of humour and irony, this work aims to reflect upon the issues our society currently faces.
‘Highly Predictable’ presents the price of a selection of keywords, displayed on a custom- shaped screen made of bright LED lights. These are the result of online searches that the artist has found on Google and other platforms, which are relevant to the surrounding area of Hammersmith. The keywords and their prices are constantly changing on the sculpture’s display screen.
‘Fat Fingers’ alludes to the fact that secret extraction won’t leave anything unexploited and presents mistyped keywords, together with their prices. These words are selected from among those initially presented by Raymond Williams in his 1988 seminal book on particularly important words (now better known as keywords) which have been used to understand developing aspects of society over time.
Fabio Lattanzi Antinori (Born 1971 Rome) studied MA Fine Art Computational (distinction) at Goldsmiths College and attended MoMA PS1 Summer School with Marina Abramovic. His recent exhibitions include Chronicles of Future Superheroes at the Museum of Contemporary Art Bucharest and Kunsthalle Bega Timisoara, Chased by Unicorns at Pi Artworks London and Istanbul, and Frieze Sculpture at Regent’s Park, London. He has been awarded the Lucas Artists Fellowship and the First Plinth Award by the Royal Society of Sculptors and was selected for the MMCA International Artist in Residence Program in Seoul.
‘Office Party’ is at 12 Hammersmith Grove from April 2024 to October 2024.
‘Precarious Conditions of Uncertainty’, Andrea V Wright
HS Projects is delighted to present Precarious Conditions of Uncertainty, an exhibition of new and recent work by Andrea V. Wright, that teeters on the peripheries of sculpture and painting.
Transformation has always been an important component in Andrea V. Wright’s practice, through materials or methodology. Utilising geometric and organic structural references, her work employs a hybrid of controlled elements: highly finished clean lines, spatial arrangements and compositions. The contrasting materials (leather, latex, fabric, rubber) paired or arranged with structures, are often a record of surfaces, of moments in time where works are developed within the specific site context.
These elements are woven into her practice suggesting a veiled architecture that reflects the body’s structure and stance. Rigid substrates of wood and steel contrast against the soft supple weight of powdered latex rubber, pointing to the ways that we drape our own bodies in an attempt to disguise what lies within.
The seen and the unseen, the experienced and the intangible, are her building blocks, presenting a vertical stage onto which crafted or industrially manufactured materials are wrapped, pinned and draped. The formal language inherent in Wright’s work contrasts with the handmade that brings a human, haptic quality to it, reflecting the relationship between the body and the physical/emotional space we inhabit.
There is something about those in-between stages, which point to between becoming and disintegrating, that Wright’s work captures, giving it tension and power. Her materials are both subtly figurative and architectural: structure and surface, bone and skin. Treading a threshold that can be incredibly difficult to articulate, visualise or give form to, for Wright, these dynamic shifts in tension are as much a metaphysical journey, a play on the imagination, as something that is physical and present.
Andrea V. Wright is a multi-disciplinary visual artist currently based in Somerset. She graduated with a BA from Chelsea College of Art & Design in 1994 and embarked on a career in fashion, styling and music working with magazines such as The Face, Arena and Italian Vogue before re- engaging with her art practice in 2010. In 2016 she graduated from Bath School of Art & Design with an MFA, Fine Art (Distinction).
Recent group exhibitions include: Something Borrowed, Arthouse1, London (2017); Make_Shift, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London (2017); Notes on Painting, Koppel Project, London (2017); New Relics, Thames Side Studios, London (2018); Prevent This Tragedy, Post Institute, London, curated by Dateagle Art (2018); Index, World Unit Whitechapel, London, curated by ThorpStavri, London (2020); Trace ElementsI1971, The Factory Project, London, curated by Rosalind Davis (2021); Luma, London, curated by Jenn Ellis/AORA (2023).
Andrea V. Wright had her first solo show in 2019 at Galeria Nordes, Spain and was selected for the Jerwood Drawing Prize (2017), Royal Society of Sculptors Bursary Award (2017/18) and the Ingram Collection Purchase Prize (2019).
In 2021 she was awarded an AN Bursary for the PADA residency in Lisbon, Portugal which culminated in a solo show at the Foundry Gallery, London. She is currently a mentor for the MASS Sculpture School.
‘Precarious Conditions of Uncertainty’ is at Howick Place from December 2023 to June 2024.
‘Be Like Mike’, Chris Cawkwell
HS Projects is delighted to present ‘Be Like Mike’, an exhibition of new and recent work by Chris Cawkwell.
‘athletes around the world, we all have a crazy dream?
but, what are you gonna do to accomplish your crazy dream? you see, not all of us have eyes to see
not all of us have feet to walk
not all of us have hands to hold
but I know all of us have a heart of gold
so, what area you gonna do to accomplish your crazy dream? what are you gonna do?
’cause I know what I’m gonna do
I’m gonna do it
so, Just Do It’
– Demarjay Smith, NIKE ‘Just Do It’ campaign, June 2018
Nike is ubiquitous with basketball thanks to celebrity brand incarnate Michael Jordan. As brands continue to make inroads into the public domain through sponsorships of state schools, community sports teams and public space – swooshes and ‘Just Do It.’ slogans are a common place; adorning billboards; trainers; clothes; basketball courts; buildings; Instagram feeds (and navels).
Be Like Mike explores the material plenitude of brands such as Nike, and how the brand has transcended sport to encompass lifestyle choice(s) and politics. It is no longer a choice of this brand or that brand, we are buying into the dream, and the dream of celebrity such as Michael Jordan. The dream that our lives will somehow be enriched, even though we are poorer having spent our money.
Cawkwell’s work explores global marketing and consumer culture utilising contemporary technologies, performative and interactive elements to critique the social systems and processes which operate around us and highlight the rate at which products are consumed and commodified.
Born in Leicester 1985, Chris Cawkwell graduated with a Masters in Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Art in 2012. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including Vandal, The Fitzrovia Gallery, London (2023); The Exhibition, The Artists Contemporary, Hackney Downs Studios, London (2021); You Are What You Eat, Bohunk Institute, Nottingham (2016); Tokyo Wonder Site’s creator in residence program (2012); Project India (Asia Arts Projects & the 1%-ers art collective (2011). Cawkwell has completed residency programs at the Bohunk Institute, Nottingham, in preparation for solo show Sensorama (2013); Tokyo Wonder Site, Aoyama, (2012); Space 118, Mumbai, (2011). His work forms part of the permanent collection at Space 118. He is a founding member and director of non-profit, artist-led space (and collective) ArtLacuna, based in Clapham Junction, London.
‘Be Like Mike’ is at 12 Hammersmith Grove from July 2023 to February 2024.