Parabola 22:00 / Hyperbola 26:00 / Ellipsis 9:00
8 September – 30 October 2011
Thursday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm
Arch Gallery
Wednesday 7 September 6-9pm: Exhibition Preview
Friday 30 September at 7pm: Screening with live narration by Ross Mullan
(Part of the South London Art Map LAST Fridays.)
A series of three digital films made in part on Orford Ness, Suffolk, a small island which politically resonates through its history of espionage, atomic testing and international communications.
The trilogy – Parabola, Ellipsis and Hyperbola – references a mathematical concept whereby those forms are all obtained by intersecting a “conical surface” with a plane, in turn, referring to an intersection of different narratives, disciplines and ideologies in the work. A fictional text links this signature assemblage, written by Nooshin Farhid and narrated by Ross Mullan.
The work is cinematically presented with screenings at 11.30 / 13.00 / 14.30 / 16.00 during gallery hours.
image: Nooshin Farhid, video still, Parabola, Conic Trilogy, 2010, Courtesy the Artist and The Agency