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Disruptive Narratives: Exciting New Exhibition Raises Questions of Identity

Thursday 29 April 2010

Disruptive Narratives

Disruptive Narratives is an exhibition of work by five artists, and former University of East London students, which explores issues of identity through painting, drawing, installation, film and performance.

The exhibition, which takes place at the AVA Gallery at the University of East London from today until 4 May, with a private viewing on Wednesday, is for anyone interested in the issues that arise around questions of identity. It’s these issues which have inspired the works of the artists: Fiona Carson, Katie Gilman, Ann Haycock, Carole Luby, Sue Mancholas and Yewande Okuleye.

Co-curator Yewande Okuleye, whose contribution Hippocampus is inspired by anxieties about the reliability and validity of personal memory says: “I think our quest for identity is what makes us human, notions of identity present a constant concern in our fragmented world, they have a universal appeal. The twists and turns of this quest threw up some unexpected revelations. One artist found a long lost relative while another artist is using Facebook as way to explore forgotten memories”

Notes to Editors

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