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Set in the busy and diverse high street of Gloucester Road, Bristol, Windows 204 is a small exhibition space with big intentions. The windows comprise a curious space, rather like a vitrine or a display cabinet, offering an exciting challenge where the lines of public art and commodity blur.
Deborah Weinreb, who instigated Windows 204 in 2007 and leads its direction, has invited four artists to take part in a series of curational residencies based on their own areas of interest. This will create a program of exhibitions, events and discussion throughout 2010 culminating in a large retrospective event and a publication at the end of the year. What connects each of the 4 curators is their concern with different ways of looking.
In the first season, Distancing Tactics, Matthew Douglas engages with the perceptual space between the real and the perceived. By investigating how visual language acts as a filter to enhance or restrain the reading of a work, he challenges the viewer to observe their own reactions, and prompts an individual analysis of the phenomenon of perception.
In Small Science, Carol Laidler explores the connection between artistic enquiry and scientific discovery presenting a series of works that critically engage with science. From trying to understand the workings of the universe to our perception of the world we inhabit, a sense of wonder is ignited.
In This is the Music of Looking, Pat Jamieson is interested in placing words outside of the normal context of the book and into a space where they have a fluid range of resonances. Hovering between the declarative and the enigmatic, like the experience of seeing ones reflection in a window or an unexpected mirror, the words prick through the membrane of the everyday.
In Twin Reflex Marcus FitzGibbon looks at gender politics through four mediums over the final period. Sculpture, painting, photography and video are used to explore the differences and relationship between the sexes. Four invited artists are asked to step outside of their own sphere of experience and interpret their reaction towards the other. Through the chosen media the imagination is employed to interpret an immediate emotional and political response, to somewhat unknown territory.
204:2010 will commence on the 1st February and continue up until October 30th
Over sixteen artists work will be featured and regular discussions and events will be held throughout the year. If you wish to be informed of these events and to receive updates and invitations please contact the curators via email.
