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198 is a pre-eminent cultural space in Brixton, which explores the rich diversity of artistic practices informed by globalisation and emerging cultural identities.
We foster creative synergies through a challenging artistic and education programme, which explores economic and social change; and their effects on visual culture.
Our artistic programme provides a platform for emerging artists and contributes to contemporary discourse on issues inherent to their work.
Our engaging, inspiring and accessible programme encourages and uses the interaction between diverse cultures, generations and social backgrounds as a catalyst for the creative process.
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The Inconsistency of Everything
Harminder Singh Judge
23rd July – 11th September 2010
Preview 22nd July 2010 7-9pm
“I always keep one eye on my personal history as a British born Sikh who loves rock music and Red Dwarf whilst also being genuinely fascinated and moved by the epic stories of religious history. I would site religious symbolism, mass conversion and the rituals of cults among my many influences, as well as Madonna, Coca-Cola & Jesus.’’
For the Inconsistency of Everything commissioned by the New Art Exchange and 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning, Judge has created new sculptural and wall-based work that locates its starting point in religious mythology merged with pop culture and marketing gimmicks.
Judge has created and shown work for Art, Lifestyle & Globalisation, Tate Modern London, Arnolfini Bristol, the European Performance Art Festival at Centre for Contemporary Arts Poland, Ikon Gallery Birmingham and the National Review of Live Art at Tramway Glasgow. Harminder Singh Judge was born in Yorkshire in 1982. He studied Fine Art in Newcastle and is currently based in Birmingham.
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Belonging Traveller's Stories, Traveller's Lives
Eva Sajovic
4th February – 20th March 2010
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Sunara Begum ARA: A New Face of the Old World
1st October – 20th November 2010
Preview 30th September 2010 6.30-9pm with a performance by Tunde Jegede
Sunara Begum draws her influences from the natural world, figurative painting, religious iconography, mystical philosophies and the cultures in which she was raised. Combining cinematography and storytelling, Begum’s work explores themes of identity and gender as seen in myth, divinity, both historical and contemporary and the lived experience, as propagated by culture. Her own personal experience is one of profound self-exploration and search for identity. She is interested in mapping connections between the human condition and the environments we inhabit. Using the body as a metaphor for landscape and the earth, her work investigates the politics of creation and transgression.
Sunara Begum will be in the gallery on Saturday 2nd October as part of the Lambeth Open.
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198 aims to advance public interest and participation in the visual arts and to nurture and support the early careers of emerging and under represented artists. In 2009 198 hosted a variety of exhibitions, including the first solo exhibition for Aya Haidar, the return to the gallery of artist and award winning writer Roma Tearne and the preview of Tahera Aziz's sound installation [Re]locate, which explores the event's that happened on the night of Stephen Lawrence's death. We have also worked on some exciting collaborations such as People, Signs & Resistance with Mutiny Arts, What is crime? with the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and Free to Air with Film and Video Umbrella. This year we will be continuing to work with some exciting new artists such as Sunara Begum and Harminder Singh Judge in who's exhibition the Inconsistency of Everything is presented in collaboration with the New Art Exchange in Nottingham. There will also be a chance to see Eva Sajovic's exhibition Traveller's Stories Traveller's Lives at Hackney Central Library as part of Gypsy, Roma, Traveller History Month.
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