Opening Event • Digwyddiad Agoriadol: Fri 6 Oct • 6-9pm • Gwe 6 Hyd
Exhibition • Arddangosfa: Sat 7 Oct – Sun 5 Nov • Sad 7 Hyd – Sul 5 Tach

Simon Pope invites you to recall, from memory, a walk through a gallery space, and explore the spatial, social and professional relations contained within it. you are asked to summon-up these remote spaces - through memory, body, speech and movement – so that they exist at two locations simultaneously, both here and there.

All are welcome to ‘walk and talk’, recalling a description of a familiar gallery space, as if you were walking through it. Simon Pope questions the consequences of this for the gallery as a ‘site’ of artwork? Can the gallery be ‘empty’ space waiting for work to fill it? What does it mean to think of this ‘place’, not as unique and differentiated, but rather deeply related and connected to other ‘places’? What is produced when professional ranks, such as curators, administrators and trustees other than the artist, are invited to be itinerant in the production of an artwork?

Gallery Space Recall was developed as part of Walking Here And There, a research project undertaken in collaboration with the psychologist Vaughan Bell. A book documenting this exhibition and other research outcomes will be produced later in the year.

This exhibition has received generous financial support from the Arts Council of Wales.

Simon Pope is currently researching walking as a visual art practice. He often works collaboratively or on large-scale, participatory projects. In 2003, Simon represented Wales at the Venice Biennale of Art, and was awarded a NESTA Fellowship (2002-2005). Previous work includes London Walking (2001) and I/O/D 4: The Web Stalker, (1996).

Simon teaches on the Design for Interactive Media BA/BSc (Hons) programme at CSAD and is a research associate at Goldsmith’s College, London and Transmedia, Hogeschool Sint Lukas, Brussels.

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