At this summer's Port Eliot Festival in Cornwall curators Wolfe Lenkiewicz and Flora Fairbairn brought together a host of artists whose work 'exposes and questions the dark side of human nature'. The exhibition, entitled 'Avatar of Sacred Discontent', has now been brought to London and will be on view at 9 Hillgate Street, W8 until 20 October. Participating artists include Rut Blees Luxemburg, Oliver Clegg, Tobias Collier, Tessa Farmer, Nadine Feinson, Gerry Judah, Annie Kevans, Liane Lang, Wolfe Lenkiewicz, Peter Lewis, Alastair Mackie, Goshka Macuga, Emma McNally, Seboo Migone, Polly Morgan, Orlando Mostyn-Owen, Ilona Sagar, Hilary Koob Sassen, Conrad Shawcross, Jason Shulman, Louise Stern, Takayuki Yamamoto and Petroc Sesti.
Shortly before the opening of the exhibition in London Dafydd Jones went to Petroc Sesti's studio to photograph his contribution to the exhibition. Sesti, whose work explores the boundaries of art and science, has recently installed a five-tonne work as part of the permanent collection at Oslo's Kistefos Museum in Norway. He was in a group show at Carrie Secrist Gallery in Chicago this summer, and is working with the British Military to develop a new series of works for a solo exhibition organised by Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst and scheduled for February 2008.
'Event Horizon', 2005
Black plinthe, turbine, glass, barrel of fluid
Edition 2/3
80 x 28 x 28 inches
Avatar of Sacred Discontent
Until 20 October
9 Hillgate Street
London W8
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