Uncharted Territory Art Show

02/08/2019

Read about Uncharted Territory on Cambridge Arts Network. We hope to be able to exhibit the show again so get in touch if you have a venue or otherwise interested!

02/06/2019

If you didn't manage to see and listen to Sarah Steenhorst's video The Divide, you can now see it online:

The Divide, is based on recorded interviews with people who have voted in the Brexit-referendum, exploring the emotional and rational drive behind their vote...

28/05/2019

If you missed the opening and the first of the show, don't worry, you can still view it until Thursday 5 PM. Email [email protected] or call 07856929013

26/05/2019

Thank you all for coming to the opening event. If you missed the opening don't worry the show continues till Thursday 30 May. Viewing by appointment only. Contact: [email protected]

02/05/2019

Join us on the 24 May for the opening of Uncharted Territory at St Barnabas Press in Cambridge.

Artist panel at 7 PM with Jill Eastland, Sarah Steenhorst and Fatemeh Takhtkeshian, chaired by Alexandra Bulat.

30/04/2019

Elmira Zadissa and Ramona Zadissa are born in Iran, grew up in Sweden and now live in the UK. They work in an interdisciplinary manner exploring the intersection of arts and politics. The spectrum of their work covers illustration, participatory art events and storytelling as a means for social change.

Brexit Stories, is their contribution to the exhibition and is a set of mixed media collages based on interviews with EU-nationals.

Brexit Stories depict how EU-nationals perceive themselves and their future in the UK in the light of ongoing discussions in media, at work/school and at home about Brexit. The collages invite the audience to reflect on issues of migration, Brexit and the making of Otherness, seen from someone else’s point of view.

http://www.zadissa.com

26/04/2019

Fatemeh Takhtkeshian is originally from Iran. She holds a practice-based PhD in Art from Lancaster University, UK; and a BA and an MA in Painting from Iran. Her practice combines drawing, painting collage and video to articulate her identity and perceptions as an Iranian woman. Her current project explores how colour, matter, photography, moving images and drawing offer ways of negotiating our understanding of landscape and socio-political identities, to examine the formation and experiences of a landscape in relation to power. Her previous project introduces a cultural understanding of the Iranian identity in the middle of the twentieth century. In her art practice, she benefits from different art techniques such as collage, transferring images and video to visualize her understanding of her identity as an Iranian woman. She challenges the idea of time as a one-dimensional continuum and proposes, instead, a surface which goes forward and backwards at the same time.

Fatemeh's contribution to the show is "Border-less": Borders are not a natural part of the human collective identities. They are, in fact, discursive: products of the ideological conceptualization nations and nationalisms. Nonetheless, social actors tend to perceive these borders as a natural part of their socio-political identities. Therefore, this work, Border-less, is meant to problematize the notion of borders by visualizing the way they cut through human socio-political consciousness.

www.fatemehtakhtkeshian.wordpress.com

24/04/2019

Sarah Steenhorst is a Cambridge-based Dutch artist and project manager who develops socially engaged art projects. She is particularly interested in ways to engage people from different backgrounds with artists and the arts. Her work is founded in the conviction that art can be seen everywhere, is important to our society and can create social, political, and communicative impact. Sarah has a BA in Fine Arts and an MA in Arts Management and currently works as a Freelance artist and project manager for socially engaged art projects in Cambridgeshire and London.

www.sarahmilousteenhorst.com

23/04/2019

Szilvia Ponyiczki is a British-Hungarian artist based in Lincolnshire. The theoretical base for Szilvia’s works mainly consists of the ideas of Jung; his concept of individuation, describing the process by which we can fulfil our true potential. In discovering and getting as close to our real, inner self as possible, and by lifting the veil of the ego, and understanding our own identity, we gain comprehension of the surrounding world.

Szilvia intends to examine how individuation is important and significant in relation to Brexit. How can we know what is best for us when making a decision without being governed by assumed or real social expectations? How can art help us in this process?

Her Jungian ideology based paintings, encourage the viewers’ understanding of the Self, apprehension of the collective and personal unconscious. Szilvia’s contributing works will represent the struggle of humans and the oppressing forces of society, which address the collective challenges of our moment in history. The audience is invited to put themselves in the position presented in the painting and try to work out a solution for themselves, making the artwork a catalyst for transformation.

www.ponyiczki.co.uk

16/04/2019

April Lin is a visual artist who explores the interstices of movement, visual media, and identity. Currently, April is studying a Master of Arts in Screen Documentary at Goldsmiths University. Their films have been screened at festivals in Europe, Asia and North America.

The Gaze takes its point of departure in the experience of being racialised, a position that must continuously relate itself to the criminalisation and/or exotification of one’s own body. In The Gaze, the gaze is returned back and directed towards the Police and the authorities, making them the observed object. It is an act that aims to renegotiate the relations of subordinance in a supposedly judicial society that fails at protecting its black and brown citizens from the Police.

https://vimeo.com/babelin