PERIPHERIES

Peripheries  – 27th October – 13th November 2011
4 Piccadilly Place, Manchester
Peripheries is a group show featuring international artists from
Indonesia, China and the UK all concerned with representing and
investigating aspects of Asia.
Social structures relayed through the
artists practice relay the edges and margins of place, from the liminal
to the peripheral, to the memories and traces of the passage of culture
and identity within.
The works exhibited explore this through themes of
displacement, migration, land rights, relationship and religion in a
series of works that include Kampong street art, Indonesian pulp
literature, fireflies, performative action, photography and
installation.
Chinese artists Dinu Li and Xinyi Lui explore political structures
and protest within their work, with Mintio & Kabul in their first
collaboration and UK showing casting processes and illuminate
historical and cultural with Indonesian religious icons lit by
fireflies in the search for the ephemeral. While Bambang ‘Toko’
Witjaksono appropriates the local through his use of graphic form,
comic strip approaches to play with social narratives in a parodic
series of prints.
Joe Duffy’s video installations reveal displacement and migration
from volcanic eruptions to landfill sites in a body of work that
abstracts narratives and journeys from communities around the big
Durian of Jakarta.
 Exhibiting artists include, Mintio & Kabul, Bambang ‘Toko’
Witjaksono (Indonesia) Xinyi Liu, Dinu Li, Tianzhuo Chen, Funa Ye
(China) Joe Duffy, Carl Jaycock (UK).