Shane Bradford, The Ensemble Project and I are pleased to invite you to an exhibition of painting and performance entitled “Mode Sirens & The Hidden Entity”. The project is a collaboration between artist Shane Bradford and the Ensemble Project, a choreographed assembly of six individual dancers, co-created by Max Gershon and me.
The opening is on Saturday, 7th May, 2022 from 3-7pm with two performances at 4pm and 6pm at 4 Bittern Street, London SE1 1PJ.
Mode Sirens ‘is a systemisation of tropes endemic to paint, pigment, movement and medium. Mistakes are isolated and categorised into groups of intentional action. The error, in all its forms is mitigated, in turn, by the repair. In the background the human body lurks. Breaches of covering canvas expose frail glimpses of bodily vulnerability. Slits, holes, openings and apertures hint at the venal imaginary flesh below the surface.’
The Hidden Entity is a performance art presentation from the Ensemble Project inspired from the collection of Mode Sirens and the very building in which it is performed. The building, a former publisher and book works in the heart of old Borough has served as the artist’s studio for the past decade and is due for redevelopment at the end of the year.
As such, it becomes another vulnerable body, a Hidden Entity living within its own time, housing the vestige of its own secret history and those who have passed through. The bespoke choreography by Max Gershon with JC Candanedo echoes the aura of past activity, manifesting a sense of loss, breakdown and separation whilst enacting a vigorous ritual of optimistic and youthful energy, akin to rebirth and reparation.
Mode Sirens & The Hidden Entity exist symbiotically as a multi-format mode of expression.
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