HUNT
WAYWARD GALLERY
4 7 M O W L E M S T R E E T
B E T H N A L G R E E N
L O N D O N
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Private View 6 – 9pm
23rd July 2010
Exhibition open 23 – 26th July 2010
HUNT brings together two emerging London artists Polly Brown and Rewati Shahani. Through a variety of mediums, both artists’work explores aspects of human and environmental interaction. HUNT concentrates on the complicated and interrelated relationship between man and nature. From the empirical reclaiming of land from the sea to the replication of nature in houseplants, the works included concentrate on the manipulation of environments that results from human desires.
Polly Brown’s practice investigates the attempt to capture or explain the transitory experiences between man and nature, and the inherent insufficiency in their reproduction. Attracted to both the sublime and the subtle, she questions our fascination with and, in a sense, our dislocation from the natural world. SILL is at once both an extension and reduction of experience. Originally inspired by a collection of photographs, it focuses on the longing attempt to re-establish nature unnaturally.
Rewati Shahani’s (born in Mumbai, based in London) work Seven Islands depicts the original outlines of Mumbai’s seven separate islands and the growth of a city thanks to land reclaimed from the sea. The process of reclaiming, begun in the colonial era, transformed the port town of Bombay, trading in silk and cotton, into one of the busiest shipping destinations in the world. Rewati’s intricate drawings, largely based on memories of her home city, express modernity’s continued trend of urbanisation, and the importance placed on cities in contemporary society.