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<br \/><b><\/b><b><br \/><\/b><b>Room to Live<br \/>Leslie Nagel and David Powell<\/b>\u2018Room to Live\u2019 is a duo exhibition by Leslie Nagel (NL) and David Powell (UK)<br \/>The title of the exhibition is taken from a song by Manchester band The Fall (1976-2018) and reflects both artists shared interests in energy, movement, sound, music, tainted glamour and the hand crafted object in a post digital world. The artists works are not a refutation of the digital, more an investigation into the consequences of living in the computer age. Once upon a time television and radio were mediums with huge experimental potential, nobody really knew what these mediums would birth which made them irresistible as the language had not been learnt, soon enough \u2018regulation\u2019 set in and programme schedules needed to be filled. So here we are perpetually sharing and consuming images, endlessly texting through cracked screens.Nagel and Powell take their time with things, they\u2019re both equally fascinated with lo-fi analogue processes, things that leave indelible traces of subjectivity and inwardness, a give and take between skill and (de)skill, learning and unlearning. A healthy suspicion of established institutions can compel redirection so a restart can take place, the studio becomes a testing ground for necessary and urgent challenges to common held presumptions. Is the past tomorrow? History ushered into the present tense? In 1843 S\u00f8ren Kierkegaard wrote a book about repetition; that it was a kind of \u2018recollection forwards\u2019. Nostalgia is too often underestimated. Do forms of time travel exist outside of sci-fi? There remains a collective desire to possess things when you know the object of your gaze and desire cannot be grasped. Just out of Reach.The exhibition will consist of sculptures, paintings and drawings that embody an attitude that strips away the fluff of the mainstream revealing something previously lost about to be reclaimed, a language? An escape route? A temporary journey into pure unequivocal joy? And when you smile. You know you blind me. To all the horrors I see.David Powell, October 2021<br \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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