location/locality

Group show: 'The Self' through 'location'

Galia Armeland, Yasmeen Al Awadi, Martin Church, Roselina Hung, Parvathi Nayar, Daniel Barclay Panizo, Yoshihiro Yamase

location/locality on difference and similarity of the self through the idea of location

Seven artists from seven different countries come together in an art exhibition in London to present ideas of self through explorations of location and locality.

Galia Armeland, Yasmeen Al Awadi, Martin Church, Roselina Hung, Parvathi Nayar, Daniel Barclay Panizo and Yoshihiro Yamase met in the class of 2003/04 at Central Saint Martins while pursuing their Masters in Fine Art. Emerging from discussions initiated through the year - and beyond, as some artists have returned to their countries of origin - is the idea of location/locality, a group show that provides a joint platform for independent exploration.

The seven artists in the show negotiate location as a complex, subtle interaction with exterior phenomena and the interiorisation of these cause-effect relationships: Galia Armeland takes on the sense of the location-less in drawings that depict mysterious domestic scenes and a humorous-disturbing sculpture; Yasmeen Al Awadi's installations deals with attachment and personal mapping systems within the interiors and exteriors of urban landscapes; Martin Church explores the idea of a constructed location through paint; the art of portraiture in Roselina Hung's oils is juxtaposed with the locations in and of memories and personal histories; Parvathi Nayar explores subjectivity through uneasily unfamiliar fragments of the familiar world, using graphite on gesso blocks; Daniel Barclay Panizo examines reality through a series of drawings that represent a multiplicity of impressions of his location; Yoshihiro Yamase's paintings create hybrid spaces as the fusion of optics and kinematics.