White Conduit Projects

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Nick Waplington, Battleship Island Courtesy of the artist and White Conduit Projects, London © Nick Waplington

NICK WAPLINGTON
BATTLESHIP ISLAND

8 October – 7 November 2015
White Conduit Projects, London

White Conduit Projects is pleased to present an exhibition of Nick Waplington’s 1990s photographs of the ruins of Japan’s Battleship Island (Gunkanjima). This tiny abandoned island off the coast of Nagasaki, was once a coal mine with a population of 5000, squeezed into a complex maze of imposing concrete apartment blocks (Japan’s first high-rises). Vacated in 1974, Gunkanjima was recently approved as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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Shino Yanai, “Screen Memories”, detail, single channel video installation (HD, color, sound) [11’50”] 2012. Courtesy the artist & White Conduit Projects, London

Andro Semeiko & Shino Yanai
Comedy and Menace – The Birthday Party

16 November – 28 December 2014
at White Conduit Projects, London

White Conduit Projects opens its central London location at 1 White Conduit Street N1 on 15th November 2014. It will be showcasing Japanese artists and designers alongside British and international artists in a programme of innovative exhibitions across a variety of media.

The inaugural exhibition entitled Comedy and Menace – The Birthday Party is an ambitious project showing works by two artists, Andro Semeiko from Georgia and Shino Yanai from Japan.

Semeiko has exhibited in various group and solo shows in England. This time he will produce work based on the history of the neighbourhood of the gallery, referring to knightly quests and cycling in Islington. Semeiko’s projects often feature knights. – “These clanking, forlorn knights, in their tragicomic search to find something authentic in this synthetic universe. Never perceiving that their mistake is to look for authenticity elsewhere, when it can already be found in their own purposeful, yet hopelessly misdirected quest.” (JJ Charlesworth) Continue reading “Andro Semeiko & Shino Yanai “Comedy and Menace – The Birthday Party” at White Conduit Projects, London”