TIME AND PLACE
Monday – Friday 10am-6pm
Saturday 10am-5pm
@ Blain Southern Gallery
4 Hanover Square, W1S 1BP
FREE ENTRY
The Directors of Blain|Southern present Frustrated Actions and Futile Gestures, a museum-scale exhibition of nine new works by the internationally renowned video artist Bill Viola.
Created between 2012 and 2013, both on location and in the artist’s studio in Southern California, the exhibition presents three distinct bodies of works; the Frustrated Actions, the Mirage and the Water Portraits series. Through these works, Viola engages with complex aspects of human experience, including mortality, transience and our persistent, yet ultimately futile attempts to truly and objectively understand ourselves and the meaning of our brief lives.
Viola’s work focuses on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth and death, and different aspects of consciousness. Absolutely one of the most interesting video artists of our time, we recommend seeing his highly affecting work first hand, especially as Viola’s most recent London exhibition was back in 2006.
