Show-Off

Reuben Feels helped to produce Show-Off a choreography of artworks curated by Creative Board Member Rose Davey and Sarah Kate Wilson of LeandaKateLouise

The exhibition seeks to challenge our expectations of the private view, where artworks typically provide a context for socialising, obstructing the intention of artwork as viewed object.Show-Off mobilises the sculptures, paintings, drawings and performances exhibited in front of a seated audience, bringing a procession of works to directly ‘meet’ the onlookers rather than the viewer activating the work through their own movements in space.

Contributing artists include Turner Prize Winner Martin Creed and recent recipient of the John Moores Painting Prize Rose WylieShow-Off will run 8-9th November in Battersea, London. This exhibition builds upon the legacy of a previous  project The Painting Parade, which saw 24 artists parade their paintings in London from Tate Modern to Green Park. Conjuring ideas of a catwalk, cattle market, debutant ball and auction house, art handlers will carry or direct each work on stage one by one to ‘show them off’. Each work will be professionally lit and illuminated for a limited time before being carried off stage.The stage has been conceived and made by Gary Woodley as a design for flexible living, allowing it to be reconfigured in a multitude of ways. Individual plywood units will each be moved, stacked and rotated to present each artwork in varied formations.