The Wharf Road Project

Preview Friday, 3rd October, 2008. 6pm - late.

“Corpus Callosum” - Linda Persson and Natasha Rees.

The Atrium, The Wenlock Building
50-60 Wharf Road
London N1 7RN

Using the site-specificity of an office building as a starting point, artists Linda Persson and Natasha Rees have developed facing installations across the Atrium at Wharf Road. The installations can be ‘witnessed’ from each of the rooms, through glass windows. One room is fully accessible housing compilations of individually produced works and the other is a partially accessible, collaborative, sculptural sound installation. The works emanate a ‘frequency’ that binds them, making the installations indistinct but inseparable. By outlining and exploring the possibilities of a provisional suspense, Persson and Rees’s ambition is to generate a transitional environment, in relation to and between the individual works and aesthetics, to explore displacement, deferral, daydreaming and obliquity within the setting.

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The Wharf Road Project brings more than 20 innovative contemporary art initiatives together for the first time in a central location, creating a seminal showcase for the more unusual and innovative. The Wharf Road Project is not an art fair, but a large-scale exhibition featuring the best of London’s specialist and experimental art spaces, complemented by a programme of performances, screenings, music and guided tours.

Participants have each been allocated one of the 5-storey venue’s rooms to curate exhibitions which reflect their artistic endeavours and curatorial ethos. This mash-up of different organisations will create an opportunity to engage with established art spaces as well as some of the newest and most exciting art initiatives in London.

The Wenlock building is owned by Workspace Group plc who have long been supporters of the arts and London’s creative industries. V22 is the first cooperatively run art collection, owned by artists themselves as well as external investor-patrons. Our ethos is to make the best new art accessible to more people in more ways. The Wharf Road Project is a celebration of artists, their supporters and the wider industry. V22 will feature new works for its collection selected by Martin Westwood and Martin Creed.

Participants include:

COLLECTIONS:

The David Roberts Art Foundation
www.galleryoneoneone.com

Martin Creed for V22
&
Martin Westwood for V22
www.v22collection.com

SPACES:

Carter Presents
www.carterpresents.com

David Risley
www.davidrisleygallery.com

E:vent
www.eventnetwork.org.uk

The Hex
www.hexprojects.org

Parade
www.paradespace.com

Seventeen
www.seventeengallery.com

Stedefreund, Berlin
www.stedefreund-berlin.de

Supplement
www.supplementgallery.co.uk

PROJECTS:

Collecting Live Art
www.collectingliveart.com

Everyday press
www.theeverydaypress.net

Fieldgate
www.fieldgategallery.com

igloo
www.igloo.org.uk

Linda Persson and Natasha Rees
www.lindapersson.org

PILOT:
www.pilotlondon.org
Poignancy passing Muster

TOM ROWLAND FINE ART

Truck Art
www.truckart.org

MOT Presents: THE NEW DOME
www.thenewdome.com INVITED ARTISTS:

Fergal Stapleton, courtesy Carl Freedman
www.carlfreedmangallery.com

Laura White invites Alison Wilding, Bettina Buck and Phyllida Barlow

Peter Jones, courtesy of
Pizza Horse and the Fat Sisters

CURATORS:

Frog Morris with Lee Campbell
www.frogmorris.net

myspace.com/leejjcampbell

Matt Williams

Dallas Seitz, Lisa Penny & Trevor Hall


Show 4th October to 19th October
Wednesday to Sunday, 12 - 7pm



CONTACT
Tel. +44 (0)207 159 6790
tara@v22london.com
lois@v22london.com

WEB
www.v22presents.com
www.v22collection.com