Saturday, 20 February 2016

Jamie Crewe at Transmission



BUT WHAT WAS MOST AWFUL WAS A GIRL WHO WAS SINGING

Transmission are pleased to present But what was most awful was a girl who was singing, the first solo exhibition of newly commissioned works by the artist Jamie Crewe (MFA 2015).

Incorporating text, video, drawing, sculpture and spatial interventions, Jamie's work is often generated from one or two significant reference points – plays, films, novels and more, which are revisited and mobilised in strange ways. The aesthetic and political qualities of these sources, and particularly references to the gay male cultural canon, are considered from a transfeminine position which Jamie describes as ‘both critical and complicit’; fuelled both by the urge to trace histories, identities, communities and desires, and by the urge to uproot them.

Transmission Gallery
28 King Street
Glasgow
G1 5QP
UK
 
 

No comments: