"Deep Time" at “Quid Pro Quo” collective exhibition at Changing Spaces gallery (Cambridge, UK).
April 10 - 13, 2014
The collective artwork “Deep Time” can be seen at the group exhibition “Quid Pro Quo: Negotiating Futures” at Changing Spaces gallery.
“Deep Time" is a collaborative site-specific installation I made with Barbara Boiocchi, Emma James, and Valerie Furnham during the Cambridge Sustainability Residency.
About “Quid Pro Quo: Negotiating Futures” exhibition:
Quid Pro Quo, noun
[Latin, What for what or Something for something.]1. The mutual consideration that passes between two parties to a contractual agreement, thereby rendering the agreement valid.
2. In common usage, quid pro quo refers to the giving of one valuable thing for another.
As suggested by the title, the exhibition is an invitation to cross the borders, to negotiate meanings and experiences regarding the status of life today. All the works in the exhibition have been conceived and produced in relation to this specific space, and as a result of seminars and talks held in the gallery throughout the last two weeks.
Stretching the ambiguity of the word 'sustainability' to a constant negotiation that concerns both the public and the most intimate aspects of our life, the exhibition turns the gallery into a world of discovery, where any experience is already given, but everything happens as a result of an encounter.
The curatorial strategy mirrors this intention, expanding the time and space of the project beyond the gallery's walls. The whole city of Cambridge has been asked to take part in this project, turning the process of making into a bartering, and exchanging pieces of art with everyday objects that have been used by the artists to make some of the works composing the exhibition.
Curated by Vanessa Saraceno
About "Changing Spaces":
Changing Spaces is an artist-run project that negotiates the use of empty commercial property as a resource for exhibitions and creative development. This includes shop window exhibitions and pop-up galleries.
The project may best be described as a nomadic, city-wide installation deployed across multiple locations on a pop-up basis. Part of the nature of Changing Spaces is its ephemeral presence.
Changing Spaces is committed to impact, innovation, and accessibility and was originally developed in conjunction with Cambridge City Council and Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University in 2009.