Shonibare to display in ‘I Know Something About Love’

Pieces by the artists inspired by Bert Bern’s 1960 song performed by The Exciters, as reflected in the exhibition’s title, with the lyrics ‘I know something about love’ will prism the theme of love in different times and cultures through the spectrum of their personal experience, observation and commentary. Yinka Shonibare is set to re-create […]

Pieces by the artists inspired by Bert Bern’s 1960 song performed by The Exciters, as reflected in the exhibition’s title, with the lyrics ‘I know something about love’ will prism the theme of love in different times and cultures through the spectrum of their personal experience, observation and commentary.

Yinka Shonibare is set to re-create his 2007 installation, Jardin d’amour (Garden of Love), where the artist “applies a playfully political perspective to his exploration of the theme of love in the eighteenth-century Rococo period in France.”

The piece earlier shown at the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, according to organisers, “will be reconfigured for the ground floor gallery at Parasol unit.

Chinese artist, Yang Fudong, is set to use the medium of moving image to explore the theme of love in one of his early works, the 3-channel video installation Flutter, Flutter… Jasmine, Jasmine, 2002. “In it, Yang Fudong – known for his critical view on contemporary life in the rapidly changing society in China – looks into the private world of a young Chinese couple.

“Shirin Neshat examines the theme of love through the lens of gender, as established and enforced since the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran. In her two-channel video work, Fervor, 2000, Iranian artist Neshat not only highlights the frustration and helplessness of Iranian women in this new paradigm, but also demonstrates how the negative view of love within the revolutionary culture affects natural human feelings.

“Slow dance marathon, 2005, by Cypriot artist Christodoulos Panayiotou, explores the social construction of love through pop music and the form of slow dancing. In this video documentation of a 24 hour long performance, a human chain is formed by strangers who slow dance to the music of well-known love songs.”

This exhibition is curated by Ziba Ardalan founder of PUFCA a privately funded educational charity based in London and a not-for-profit contemporary art gallery established in 2005.

It is a privately funded educational charity based in London and a not-for-profit contemporary art gallery established in 2005.

The display will be accompanied by a new publication, co-published and distributed internationally by Koenig Books.