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23
Jan - 29 Feb 04
Wed to Sun 12-6pm
Scandinavian
sun worshippers, German grannies, British lager louts and French family
groups - come to the Canary Islands before next season when ten million
European fun seekers drop by. The Canaries are a seething mass of oiled
flesh jiggling in the lap of the waves and to the beat of discos, bars
and gay nightclubs. They offer the worst of mass tourism: concreted shorelines,
tacky apartment block after tacky apartment block, and bars where you
can pretend you’ve never left home.
This
exhibition consists of a large scale video projection shot in the Canary
Islands and a sculpture made from the fabric used for windsurfing sails.
The brutalist architecture of mass tourism forms the backdrop to a medidative
dissection of local and international cultures at the place where they
meet, the beach.
Nicolás
Laiz Placeres graduated from the Goldsmiths College Fine Arts MA last
year. He has exhibited previously in Berlin, Madrid, Bilbao, and Lanzarote.
This will be his first solo show in the UK.
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The Tabernacle
Powis Square
London, W11 2AY
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