Exhibition
Public Exhibition
Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
The exhibition title “Leopards in the Temple", is taken from a story in Franz Kafka’s book “Parables and Paradoxes”.
Kafka’s insoluble allegory inspires how we encounter paradox in the range of contrasting works. Time-based and object-oriented approaches to works made over two years of the course, are presented in the open space in the public exhibition at Broadcasting Place, School of Arts.
The 12 participating students pose individual questions that point to paradoxes rising between the traditional materials of art-making and those of new technology. This paradoxical relation will surprise visitors thinking about an exhibition broadly in terms of influences from the past or how art is to be envisioned in the desire for a future imagined free from crisis. Artists demand that curating a ‘show’ composes past and future viewpoints from the resources of the present-day.
Exhibiting themes concerning the relations between art-making and technology does not solve riddles, but by suspending disbelief in universal stories such as Kafka’s, creates new narrative possibilities out of personal day to day experience and shared perceptions. A visitor to the exhibition is given free reign to interpret the specific pieces exhibited in video, sound, installation, painting, sculpture, photography, spoken word performance, and recording, raising the question of art’s rehabilitation of technology, to situate its place in the non-artistic field of global mass-culture.
The exhibition will feature work by MA Fine Art students:
- Courtney Burkinshaw
- Nicole Dodds
- Jasmine Easton-Cooper
- Luke Foulds
- Chloe Francis
- Dani Ingham
- Eli Kershaw
- Alex Mueller
- Reece Oxley
- Anne Temple Clothier
- Olli Tipling
- Paul Tranter
