[spectre] Please, express yourself - just do it | new exhibition at Green Cube Gallery

[Green Cube Gallery]

Please, Express Yourself
Just do it
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How much is the personal initiative of the staff of artistic institutions
just branding? And how is self-expression managed? These are the questions
behind Please, Express Yourself - Just do it, the IRL/URL exhibition
project, curated by Filippo Lorenzin and hosted by Green Cube Gallery,
opening today and visible until 8th December 2018.

Four international artists will explore the thin line between what is
officially tolerated and personal freedom granted to the employees by
designing badge pins and background wallpapers that will be worn and used
by the members of staff of a major London art venue.

Carla Gannis created a brand new AR work inspired by one of the most iconic
treasures of such venue, a piece that questions post-colonialism and the
memeification of history. Leor Wellington composed a visual poem addressing
the critical use of Front of House members of staff’s bodies. Shinji Toya
will explore data collecting policy at the time of the General Data
Protection Regulation with a new work blending IRL engagement with online
procedures. Kamilia Kard made a new work that investigates modernist
primitivism values while questioning hyper-mediated digital representation
of the female body. Every two weeks each artist will be featured on the
gallery’s website.

The exhibition will offer the opportunity to inquire the nature of artworks
on display in a museum. Should gallery assistants be considered part of the
display as much as cases and plinths? To what degree self-expression policy
allows members of staff to be at the same time means of display?

Please, Express Yourself - Just do it
15th October - 8th December 2018
Curated by Filippo Lorenzin for Green Cube Gallery

Link
http://greencube.gallery

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*Carla Gannis* is a New York-based artist fascinated by digital semiotics
and the situation of identity in the blurring contexts of physical and
virtual. She received an MFA in painting from Boston University, and is
faculty and the assistant chairperson of The Department of Digital Arts at
Pratt Institute. Upon her arrival to New York in the 1990s, Gannis began
incorporating digital elements into her painting-based practice. Gannis’s
work has appeared in numerous exhibitions and screenings, nationally and
internationally.
http://carlagannis.com

*Leor Wellington* is an US artist who recently received her MA in
Transdisciplinary New Media from the Paris College of Art.  Prior to
completing her fine arts studies, she worked in Corporate America, first as
an engineer and later in various business roles.  She alludes to these
experiences in her artistic representations, which examine shifting mores
and identities in the digital age.

*Shinji Toya* is a Japanese multimedia artist based in London. His artistic
interests include ephemerality and precariousness in the digital. The
recent projects of Toya address the issues such as problems of the data
economy and digital memory. Currently, he is undertaking a collaborative
residency at Space dealing with bias of artificial intelligence. His
previous projects were presented at Tate Modern, arebyte Gallery,
Interfaces Monthly in association with Barbican, Ars Electronica, Royal
Academy of Arts (UK), RSA and Beijing New Media Arts Triennial.
http://shinjitoya.com

*Kamilia Kard* is an Hungarian/Italian artist based in Milan. She holds a
MA Degree in Political Economy (CLEP) from the Bocconi University, Milan
(2003), a BA Degree in Painting (2012), and a MA Degree in Net Art (2014),
both from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan. Kard’s work focuses on the
construction of identity in the internet age. Her projects reflect on how
to build an image, a narrative and an identity that interfaces and
communicates in a virtual and real space. Since 2016 she teaches multimedia
languages at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Netart at Alma Artis
Academy of Pisa and 3D modeling at the Academy of fine art of Carrara.
http://kamiliakard.org

*Filippo Lorenzin* is an Italian independent curator based in London. At
the moment, his practice is focused on investigating new media art through
the lens of traditional art history. He previously collaborated with many
international art venues, including Saatchi Gallery, Goethe Institut and La
Biennale di Venezia.

*Green Cube Gallery* is a nomadic online/offline exhibition space run by
Guido Segni and Matìas Ezequiel Reyes. It aims to flow in and out of the
digital screen in order to stress the limits and the relationship between
virtual and real.

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