Guest-curated by Leeza Ahmady, Director of Asia Contemporary Art Forum
A week-long show-within-a-show presenting 5 curators, June 15 — 19. 
Details here, Day 1: Ombretta Agro Andruff

Ombretta Agró Andruff

 

Curatorial Statement:

Charting dreams, fears and premonitions of collapse, Memories from the Future is a series of performative actions made in the landscape of Florida and recorded in video and photography. The work weaves fictions and conjures dream-like images - but images that are nevertheless built on very real physical actions. In each work the artist’s body is placed in precarious and absurd situations where he is either stranded, sinking or engulfed. Borrowing a language from ‘Slapstick’, the work uses a sculptural physicality to picture, but also to embody, humankind’s precarious position on this planet - a position that leads to an absurd and desperate humour. In these times of pandemic the work speaks to the position of a vulnerable individual displaced, distanced and disorientated by his strange new circumstances.

Re-enactment for Future Scenario no.2: Cape Romano by Simon Faithfull

8min, HD video, 2019
A film that seems to present a memory from a forgotten future. Stranded on the half-submerged ruins of a futuristic ‘Dome Home’ (off the coast of Florida), a figure is haunted by memories of a dwelling before its foundations were washed away by a series of hurricanes.

still from Re-enactment for Future Scenario no.2: Cape Romano, 2019 by Simon Faithfull

still from Re-enactment for Future Scenario no.2: Cape Romano, 2019 by Simon Faithfull

 
still from Re-enactment for Future Scenario no.2: Cape Romano, 2019 by Simon Faithfull

still from Re-enactment for Future Scenario no.2: Cape Romano, 2019 by Simon Faithfull

Self-Portrait: Big Cypress, Everglades by Simon FaithfullDigital photograph, 2019 A figure stands up to his chest in the murky waters of Florida’s Everglades - whether he is stuck, lost, or waiting is not clear. 

Self-Portrait: Big Cypress, Everglades by Simon Faithfull

Digital photograph, 2019
A figure stands up to his chest in the murky waters of Florida’s Everglades - whether he is stuck, lost, or waiting is not clear. 

Self-Portrait: Florida Bay by Simon FaithfullDigital photograph, 2019 A figure clings to a pole in the still waters of Florida Bay, at the southern tip of Florida. Why he is here, or how he came to be in this predicament, is unclear.&…

Self-Portrait: Florida Bay by Simon Faithfull

Digital photograph, 2019
A figure clings to a pole in the still waters of Florida Bay, at the southern tip of Florida. Why he is here, or how he came to be in this predicament, is unclear. 

Installation shots from exhibition Fathom, The Exchange, Princes Street, Penzance, UK, June 15 – October 5, 2019 by Simon Faithfull

Installation shots from exhibition Fathom, The Exchange, Princes Street, Penzance, UK, June 15 – October 5, 2019 by Simon Faithfull

 
Installation shots from exhibition Fathom, The Exchange, Princes Street, Penzance, UK, June 15 – October 5, 2019 by Simon Faithfull

Installation shots from exhibition Fathom, The Exchange, Princes Street, Penzance, UK, June 15 – October 5, 2019 by Simon Faithfull

 
Installation shots from exhibition Fathom, The Exchange, Princes Street, Penzance, UK, June 15 – October 5, 2019 by Simon Faithfull

Installation shots from exhibition Fathom, The Exchange, Princes Street, Penzance, UK, June 15 – October 5, 2019 by Simon Faithfull