East Wing Collection No 7 Courtauld Institute London

Courtauld Institute London

East Wing Collection No 7 Culture Bound
Somerset House
WC2R 0RN
Free tours Saturdays call to book 020 7848 2687 [email protected] www.eastwingcollection.org.uk
January 2006 - 2007

Akiko & Masako Takada Salvatore Arancio Jung Lee Chris Kenny Thomas Struth Marianne Carlton Shezad Dawood Layla Curtis Maja Borg Zineb Sedira Gonkar Gyatso Roshini Kempadoo John Hayward Oleg Kulik Yinka Shonibare David Blandy Gavin Turk Rachel Garfield Stephen Gill Michael Takeo Magruder Ewen Spencer Poppy de Villeneuve Olga Chernysheva Georgia Russell Maslen & Mehra Jack Southern Mustafa Hulusi Grayson Perry Marine Hugonnier Rachel Oxley Elmgreen & Dragset Jeremy Deller

The seventh East Wing collection, Culture Bound, will exhibit artists’ responses to the cultural realities of the metropolis. By examining roles of perception and categorization, the works will represent the interactions of groups and individuals within the ‘global city’. It started from the premise that we are all essentially culture bound, conditioned within a network of value systems that continue to engage with the ‘other’.

We have worked outwards from a view of how official ‘multiculturalism’ can act as a decoy to conceal ideological intolerance and social inequality. The works will address the effects of and intentions behind definitions of our society, aiming to deconstruct cultural mythologies formed by media, language and communication.

Displayed in the seminar rooms and communal spaces of the Courtauld, the exhibition aims to provoke and challenge, questioning the role of the individual within today’s society.