Pretty Shitty City

Private View: 7 – 9.30pm Saturday 16th August

Exhibition Continues until 15th September
Gallery opening hours: Thursday – Sunday, 11am -5pm.

“In one sense ‘Looking for love’ is a documentary about the people of Swansea.

Using art as a pretext with which to engage people. The artist Naomi Leake, goes speed dating in a wedding dress and kerb crawling dressed as a sheep in the notorious Swansea drinking street, Wind Street. The short films shown alongside her drawings, document Naomi’s cultural interventions & employ dream like story telling to create intimate portraits while addressing social concerns. Drawings of local people revealing their everyday occupations and preoccupations are presented alongside the written narratives of Jenny Klien.

By harnessing the symbolic and emotional potential of places, people and situations the collaboration between Naomi Leake, Jenny Klein and people of Swansea has universal as well as personal resonance. ‘Looking for love’ is an exhibition poised on the boundary between fact and fiction.”

There will be two short performances on the night of the private view.

Elysium Artspace
41 High Street, Swansea, SA1 1LT.
Tel: 01792 64131
email:elysiumgallery@yahoo.co.uk
www.elysiumgallery.com
www.myspace.com/elysiumgallery

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