Exhibition
'Red Threads' - Poulomi Desai
12th November - 11th December 2005
Opening: Sat 12th November 6-9pm
FOVEA gallery
140 Vaughan Rd Harrow HA1 4EB (Click
here for map)
Tel: 020 8357 2924
fovea@freeuk.com
www.foveagallery.co.uk
Here in the outer suburbs of London, it is easy to collude with the notion that 'culture' is located in central London, or in the case of the visual arts, in East London. It is certainly more visible in these areas, but in looking 'over there', we are often in danger of missing the gems that lie beneath our very feet.
Poulomi Desai has worked and exhibited all over the world. Harrow is her home territory-but not somewhere she is widely known or celebrated for her work as an artist.
The aim of this exhibition, supported by the Arts Council, is to change this situation: by bringing a body of Poulomi's work to Fovea, running an open discussion/seminar for any one interested, offering workshops based around the show for young people, and promoting the book Red Threads a collaboration with Parminder Sekhon.
This selection of photographs on show challenges us to look, think and imagine beyond the surface of what we see, what we think we know, what we may hope for, and what we fear, when we encounter another human being.
"There is an overt sexuality to the almost hidden images and an honesty to the engaging stares of the subjects.. Poulomi's series of pictures opens a series of questions about the observer's own preconceptions" Dazed and Confused
"The images.., look at first sight like portraits of glamorous young Asian women and respectable older ladies. Her irreverent aim is to shatter the contours of these fixed notions of sexual, national, cultural, personal, political and diasporic identities.. Her work is resolutely hybridised." Professor Stuart Hall from "Different" Published by Phaidon
Red Threads - Photographic Workshops
As part of the exhibition the Fovea Gallery is organising photographic based portrait workshops for local groups to create their own images which will be exhibited in the gallery alongside Poulomi’s work. The workshops will be a chance for participants to create their own portraits using props, objects and costumes, and to be introduced to the main themes of the exhibition and the book.
For further information and if your group would like to take part and please contact :
Debbie
Fovea Gallery
140 Vaughan Rd Harrow HA1 4EB
020 8357 2924
fovea@freeuk.com
www.foveagallery.co.uk
Places are limited so please book early.