exhibition

Tainted Love

04.May.12 - 27.May.12
Fri-Sun 12-6

Transition Gallery
Unit 25a Regent Studios 8 Andrews Road
London E8 4QN
020 7254 0045
transition@huntergather.com
www.transitiongallery.co.uk
Tube Bethnal Green; BR Cambridge Heath, Hackney / Bethnal Green

You are an obsession, you’re my obsession…
Tainted Love is a day-dreamingly, dark installation questioning what it means to desire, cherish, seek, long, admire, envy, celebrate, protect or destroy. These desires for desire inform aspects of how we make sense of the world, in relation to mass media, and in relation to our historical, social and cultural locations to create meaning in our everyday lives where the traditional bonds of race, religion and ethnicity are increasingly diminished and where fantasy functions as an empty surface for the projection of our desires. Ranging from simple groups of paintings to more elaborate devotional structures, each dedicated to what Proust claimed was 'the only successful (sustainable) love’... unrequited. From cabinets of transgression to intimate shrines the Tainted Love artists attempt to come closer to an object of desire, that eludes our grasp, no matter what we do to attain it.
Supported by ACE grants for the arts