Curation
Now You See It
20 Sep – 25 Oct 2009
Café Gallery Projects, Southwark Park, London SE16 2UA
Now You See It features the work of artists whose practices engage with mimesis and reality. Although we know we shouldn’t always believe our eyes – that the camera can be persuaded to lie, that illusions, fakes, hoaxes and phishing attacks are a part of everyday life – disbelief remains hinged on our trust in images…
Feel The Force
27 May – 28 June 2009
Café Gallery Projects, Southwark Park, London SE16 2UA
Feel the Force brings together the work of eight international artists whose practices engage with power and resistance. Force as psychological, physical, political; the appeal in the title to ‘feel’ the force suggests an emphasis on the instinctive or experiential over the factual or rational…
Make, Shift & Bend
8th April – 10th May 2009
Café Gallery Projects, Southwark Park, London SE16 2UA
Make, Shift and Bend brings together 11 artists whose practices dispute assumptions on the appearance and function of (art) objects. The title, a twist on the UK Ministry of Information’s WWII pamphlet series (“Make Do and Mend”), encapsulates a needs-must approach to the job of making and sense of play with materials and ideas already in existence…
Futureblueperfect
25 June – 27 July 2008
Café Gallery Projects, Southwark Park, London SE16 2UA
Intense, in tense or in tents? The title for the show has arisen out of a miscommunication. Future pluperfect (as opposed to blueperfect) is a Latin tense used in English grammar to describe future actions in the past and not the name of a spoof advertising – or colour-prediction agency…
Müller Porritt Wolff
14 May – 15 June 2008
Café Gallery Projects, Southwark Park, London SE16 2UA
Natural and domestic forms are pushed beyond the point of practical purpose in the works of Markus Müller, Sam Porritt and Alexander Wolff. The materials used and sculptural assemblages presented are rarely what they seem. (Mis)appropriated DIY, design or art-historical details may bring to mind a real-world function or context, but in each work the production standards of the physical entities implied have been contravened…
Things That Go Bump In The Night
2 Apr – 4 May 2008
Café Gallery Projects, Southwark Park, London SE16 2UA
The works of this diverse international group collectively describe a world out of kilter. While some appear hewn from conflicting real and fantastical sensibilities others quietly leak the notion that something just isn’t quite right. The status quo is referenced through objects, drawings and films in ways that undermine the socially accepted truths on which our experiences are founded…