(Not) Every Thread Ties Down / Your Split Ends Are Showing
Zoë Paul, May Hands, Sophie Jung, Merike Estna, Byzantia Harlow
Opening reception: Thursday 7th July 6-9pm
Dates: Wednesday 6th July – Saturday 13th August
Open: 12-6pm Wednesday – Saturday
DKUK Salon
Units 20 & 22, Holdrons Arcade, 135a Rye Lane, Peckham, SE15 4ST
Healthy, Feather, Triple, Tree, Long, Deep, Double Y, Baby, Taper, Thickening, Offshoot, White Spots, Knot, Incomplete Split, Right Angle, Crinkle — “I found the Mother of split ends today”.
DKUK is pleased to present its first group show (Not) Every Thread Ties Down / Your Split Ends Are Showing, guest curated by Leo Cohen and Lucy Rollins. The exhibition responds to DKUK’s hybrid environment with a newly commissioned installation of works exploring visual, semantic, abject and ontological ambiguities and narratives of hair and “split ends”.
Referencing Andreas Eschbach’s The Carpet Makers (2006), set in a dystopian low-tech primitive world where the main industry is the manufacture of human hair carpets, the show realises a speculative exhibition of artworks in the Emperor’s palace that never truly comes to fruition in Eschbach’s sci-fi novel.
The exhibition will include an additional written text by Leo Cohen and Lucy Rollins.
Zoë Paul (b.1987) lives and works in Athens. She received her BA from Camberwell College of Art (2009) and her MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London (2012). She has exhibited at The Breeder (Athens), Jewish Museum (New York), New Museum (New York), Ricou Gallery (Brussels), ReMap 4 (Athens), Laure Genillard (London), Cass Sculpture Foundation (Sussex), Gallerie Carrée (Nice), MOT International (London), and Cole Contemporary (London). Current shows include White Rainbow (London) and the Benaki Museum in collaboration with the DESTE Foundation (Athens).
May Hands (b. 1990) lives and works in London. She received her BA from Camberwell College of Art (2013). Her work has exhibited internationally at BACO (Bergamo), T293 (Rome), MOSTYN (Wales), Bosse & Baum (London), Ellis King (Dublin), Assembly Point (London), Rowing (London), Roman Road (London) and HA HA Gallery (Southampton). Current shows include the Averard Hotel (London).
Sophie Jung (b.1982) lives and works in Basel and London. She received her BA from the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam and her MA from Goldsmiths, London. Her work has exhibited internationally at Cery Hand Gallery (London), State of Concept (Athens), Temnikova & Kasela Gallery (Tallinn), Ballroom Marfa (Texas), Kunsthalle Basel (Basel), Wysing Arts Centre (Cambridge), ICA (London), and Nosbaum Reding Projects (Luxembourg). Current and upcoming shows include Oakville Galleries (Toronto), Hester (New York) curated by Nicoletta Lambertucci and a performance for the Athens Biennial.
Merike Estna (b.1980) lives and works in London and Tallinn. She received her BA in painting from the Estonian Academy of Arts and her MA from Goldsmiths, London (2009). She has exhibited at Karen Huber Gallery (Mexico City), Biquini Wax (Mexico City), Temnikova & Kasela Gallery (Tallinn), KUMU Art Museum (Tallinn), Matt’s Gallery (London), Small Projects (Tromso) and Palermo Galerie (Stuttgart). Current and upcoming shows include Murias Centeno (Porto) and Museum für Neue Kunst Freiburg (Freiburg).
Byzantia Harlow (b. 1986) lives and works in London. She recently received her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art. She has exhibited at The Luminary (St Louis), Beers (London), Pangaea Sculptors’ Centre Project Space (London), Barbican Centre (London), Tate Britain (London). Upcoming shows include Chalton Gallery (London) and New Contemporaries (Liverpool).
Daniel Kelly (b. 1981) is director of DKUK, an ACE funded project. He has exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery, Somerset House, Ancient and Modern, French Riviera, Outpost (Norwich) and Matt’s Gallery. His work The Pirates of Carthage was performed on Resonance FM; performance-based installation Birds2013.com was funded by the Elephant Trust. He has work in the Saatchi collection and is a former associate of Open School East.
Graphic design: Dominik Krauss
The exhibition has been generously supported by the Arts Council England and the Estonian Cultural Endowment.
