OCT.27-NOV.10/ OBJECTS

Open to the Public Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm, by appointment.
The exhibition runs until Nov 10 2014.ABOUT THE SHOW: Objects (2014) is a new mixed media show by Trinidad‐based artist Al Braithwaite.
The exhibition further includes collaborative photographic work by artists Richard Arrindell, Miquel Galofré, Abigail Hadeed, Nadia Huggins, Marlon James, and Alex Smailes in response to selected objects. Narratives of play, embodied power and vulnerability run through the work, surfacing as much in the newer Trinidadian work as they do in earlier often Middle‐East‐based pieces by Braithwaite. The exhibition comprises one book, eight sculptures, and over thirty photographs.

The world gets fractionally altered in Objects, via a restless hand that does its work with simple found materials. Things get repositioned slightly, deployed in certain contexts; meanings get mutated, norms come in for questioning, combinations are reset, functions reappraised. This is the simple migrant logic of juxtaposition, but it often startles before it assimilates, carrying as it does a tense
load of hybrid baggage. Braithwaite’s work is often bound up with social metaphor like this, with people and objects becoming nearly interchangeable or
equivalent. His fondness for combinations of material may be a displaced version of a similar love he has for mongrel identities, mixed potentials, and negotiated
power‐gradients.ABOUT THE ARTIST:Al Braithwaite (b.1979) is a contemporary artist from London, who works across a variety of disciplines including sculpture, assemblage, found material and installation. His work fits into a tradition of conceptual art, recalling Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus, and aspects of
Orphism.

Al co‐founded The Offscreen Group with writer Henry Hemming in 2002. The group worked in a number of countries on a low‐budget model like the Beat poets, the Black Audio Film Collective or the Russian group AES+F. During its time the group was joined by feminist filmmaker Georgie Weedon and curator Stephen A. Stapleton, cofounder of Edge of Arabia. From 2005 Al pursued more solo work, continuing the same low‐budget model but for his own purposes. An
interest in migration and shifts in postcolonial society led him to live in contexts like Ground Zero in the United States, and Trinidad in the West Indies, which have both impacted his work. Hybrid textures play
a significant role in his practice.

His new work The Limes Installation (2014) recently showed at Alice Yard, Port of Spain, a non‐profit project space with an ongoing residency programme, in its seventh year. Previous solo exhibitions
include Museum No.1: Hizbollah’s Caviar at Rose Issa Projects, London (2009); Twinned Towers at Leila Heller Gallery, New York (2011); Transgressions at XVA Gallery, Dubai (2012). His work is in
numerous private and public collections including the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan Private Collection, Abu Dhabi; the Salsali Private Museum (SPM), Dubai; the Sheikha Paula al‐Sabah Private Collection, Kuwait; the Moez Ahamed Jamal Private Collection, Zurich; British Council Collection, London and Tehran; British Library Collection, London; The Farook Collection, Dubai; Vasili
Tsereteli Collection, Moscow.

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