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Gazmend Ejupi, Romanian Story/Installation View 2013,
steel poles, wood, plastic
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Gazmend Ejupi, Romanian Story/Installation View 2013,
steel poles, photograph
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Gazmend Ejupi, Romanian Story/Installation View 2013,
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Gazmend Ejupi, Romanian Story/Portrait, 2013,
C- print, framed
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Jack Duplock, Installation View, detail, 2013,
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Jack Duplock, Installation View, detail, 2013,
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Jack Duplock, Installation View, detail, 2013,
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Gazmend Ejupi, 'Romanian Story', Gallery 1
Jack Duplock, ' Come With Us', Gallery 2
The Agency is pleased to present two concurrent solo exhibitions' Romanian Story', a multimedia installation by Kosovan artist Gazmend Ejupi in Gallery 1 and paintings by British artist Jack Duplock in Gallery 2.
Ejupi worked for a year researching and filming his new film following Romanian workers building a stripclub in the UK. The documentary style film frankly exposes the way some Romanian families cope with the task of making a living wage in Britain, intended to support a better life in Romania. With his trademark subtle humour which satirises even the bleakest of situations Ejupi manages to represent the perplexing choices faced by Romanian builders and their spouses in the quest to better themselves at home. The lives of the craftsmen and their loyal wives are starkly contrasted with the aspirational stripclub environment and a haunting of the last communist leader Ceausescu (1918-1989) from the relatively recent Romaian past. Ejupi works with direct interview techniques, handheld camera and raw cut footage to achieve a simple yet compelling narrative with his astute social observations.
Jack Duplock has creted a new series of paintings and sculptural objects on the subject of his ongoing investiagtion into modernday shamanistic rituals. His paintings celebrate the psychedelic and folk rituals in contemporary sub-cultures. Working with pagan and sub-cultural symbolism he connects hallucinated and imagined motifs in a collagist style playing with scale and shifts in representation. "This is folk-art as viewed through the gauze of the darkest incarnation of Pop, and the mythic imagery here refers to the general myth of consumerism." Philippa Snow, 2013
Ejupi and Duplock both feature in The Gathering, with a/o Jonathan Baldock, Marcus Coates, Jamie Shovlin. The exhibition took place at gallery Yukiko Kawase, Paris in late 2012 and will tour to Hamburg in autumn 2013. A catalogue with an essay by Philippa Snow is in production.
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