Sights of a Steeple
Enjoy 'Sights from a Steeple' a new exhibition from IBID PROJECTS
IBID PROJECTS is pleased to present 'Sights from a Steeple', a group show of six international artists.
Each of whose work deals with issues such as a romance that has failed, a Poe-esque approach to the subject of the night or attitudes of austerity and self-restraint.
The exhibition takes its title from the chapter of a book by the Nineteenth-century novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. Each story in the book had previously been published or told before. In the chapter 'Sights from a Steeple', an all-seeing narrator surveys the world around him from the heights of a church tower. His reflections create a sense of dizzying vertigo but also relay a sense of liberation that can come from looking at an environment from a distance, whereby the past and future can be seen together in one moment.
In a similar way, many of the artists in the exhibition can appear forward-looking in their vision whilst equally sharing a fascination for pre-Modernist canons. Through multiple references from Post-punk music to Nineteenth century literature and scientific photography, each have found similar possibilities in the past in the way that music groups such as The Cure or Joy Division explored Nineteenth century links between disaster and romance, and saw them as closely related; or, looked at recent subcultures that are still somehow unknown or have already been claimed by others.
The exhibition runs from Saturday July 5th until Sunday August 24th. The gallery is open from Wednesday to Sunday from 12pm to 6pm.
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How to get there
The closest tube station is located at Bethnal Green. The closest overground station is located at Cambridge Heath.
If travelling by bus the 26, 48, 55, 106, 254, 309, 388, 394, D3 and D6 all serve Cambridge Heath.
