Binary Oppositions
Simon and Tom Bloor
Karin Kihlberg and Reuben Henry
Mike Johnston
Kate Pemberton
Juneau/Projects/
Justin Wiggan and Oona Luras
6 October 2007 – 3 January 2008

Curated by Matt Price

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Binary Oppositions is an exhibition of 10 emerging artists based in Birmingham, UK, in which polarities and contrasts are integral to the works. The show places particular emphasis on lo fi culture in a hi fi world through works that address the analogue and the digital, nostalgia and the new, the handmade and the industrially produced, the manual and the electric. Through media as diverse as drawing, handcrafts, collage, digital imagery, sculpture, photography, film and animation, the exhibition casually raises questions about tradition and progress, folklore and technology, myth and rationalism, modernity and postmodernity.

Also accompanying the exhibition, Static Caravan, one of the UK’s leading independent record labels, will be releasing a compilation album of music by 20 artists and bands from Birmingham whose work resonates with the themes of the show. The Binary Oppositions album, featuring 21 tracks ranging from music concrete to electronica, from post-rock to folk music, has been curated by Geoff Dolman (Static Caravan) and Matt Price, and will be released in an edition of 500 copies at a special exhibition price of £10/15€. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition, designed by Ben Javens and published by Citric Gallery

Binary Oppositions