Laura Pawela | Fake Films and a Few Frames More
IMT Gallery, London
21 – 23 November 2014
Preview: Thursday 20 November 6 – 9pm
Opening times: Friday – Sunday 12 – 6pm or by appointment
Fake Films and a Few Frames More is an exhibition by the artist Laura Pawela of major video works never before seen in the UK. The exhibition will include important early works from Untitled/Friedrich (2008) and Sugar (2009); through to more recent works such as a new single-screen version of her powerful video installation Songs of Insatiability (2011); and Past Present Continuous (2010), a meditation on the future of ruins of half-built follies in European cities exhibited as part of her solo exhibition at Propaganda Gallery, Warsaw.
Pawela recently exhibited in You Cannot Step into the Same River Twice at the Pump House Gallery, Battersea, Crimestory at the Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń, and in Manchester Contemporary 2013. Last year she was awarded the prestigious Silesian Voivodeship Artistic Award for achievements in the field of the visual art. She is currently working on the mockumentary Pink Horizon, with Tomasz Kolankiewicz, with support from the Polish Ministry of Culture.
Fake Films and a Few Frames More is supported by the Polish Cultural Institute.