Naissance

12th February - 31st March 2010

The Usurp Art Collective has successfully launched the only contemporary art gallery and studios in the London Borough of Harrow with the first exhibition event "Naissance" on Fri 12 Feb 2010

Contributing Artists include: Mona Hatoum, Disinformation, Chila Burman, Jess Hurd, Matt Jordan, Dulari Summaria, Alia Syed, Jeremy James Wood & Nazneen Ayyub-Wood, Sousan Luqman, Vista Mundi, Steve Beresford, The Pardhan Gond Collective, Usurp, Tokyo Rinpa Eshidan. Performances by Dr Das, Emergency Bass Sound System, Najma Akhtar and Russell Martin.

The Usurp Art Gallery opens in a classic 1930's former butcher's shop with a group exhibition titled "Naissance" (birth of a movement or organization). Usurp has been inspired by the writings of Jean-Richard Bloch (1884-1947), playwright, political thinker, poet and anti-fascist. In his essay "Naissance d'une Culture" ("Birth of a Culture" 1936) he called for an art that would associate the democratic tradition with mass culture.