Three weeks - three films

Just received news of the new exhibition at the Wallspace Gallery:

"8–26 October 2007
Sam Taylor-Wood: Pietà, Ascension, Prelude in Air
Three weeks – three films

We're delighted to welcome internationally regarded artist Sam Taylor-Wood to Wallspace. Over the course of three weeks in October 2007, we will exhibit three film pieces which a give a decidedly 21st century take on ancient religious themes. They are Pietà, Ascension and Prelude in Air.

Often employing a wry humour, Taylor-Wood explores the relationship between the sacred and profane, fusing religious imagery informed by Renaissance and Baroque painting with the artist's own secular, urban and contemporary landscape.

The youngest artist ever to have a solo exhibition at London’s Hayward Gallery, Sam Taylor-Wood is a friend to well-known figures who occasionally appear in her work. Commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, she famously filmed footballer David Beckham asleep. And in her series Crying Men, Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law, Daniel Craig, Paul Newman and Lawrence Fishburne are displayed in various states of emotional distress. But she is no stranger to hardship, having suffered two attacks of cancer which she publicly acknowledges and has referred to in her work.

We will be showing one film each week for three weeks. Each short film will be shown continuously throughout the day. Pietà, 8–13 October; Ascension, 15–20 October; Prelude in Air 22–26 October.

Opening times: Monday–Friday 12–6; Thursday 12–7; Saturday 10–4.
Wallspace: All Hallows on the Wall, 83 London Wall EC2M 5ND. Tel: 07794 586 203."

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