Opening of New Exhibitions and Presentations | 13 November 2021, 20:00-24:00

I didn’t think it would turn out this way
Am I an Object, part IV

Opening: 13 November, 20-24 hrs
14 November – 19 December 2021
Thu-Sun, 14-18 hrs

Aman Sandhu, Anne-Marie Copestake, Clarinda Tse, Margaret Salmon, Mathew Wayne Parkin and Renèe Helèna Browne, with Harriet Rose Morley and Bo Wielders

David Dale Gallery are excited to present I didn’t think it would turn out this way, an exhibition of artists’ moving image by Glasgow-based artists at P/////AKT, Amsterdam. The exhibition includes six short films by Aman Sandhu, Anne-Marie Copestake, Clarinda Tse, Margaret Salmon, Mathew Wayne Parkin and Renèe Helèna Browne.

I didn’t think it would turn out this way takes its title from an essay on the affective possibilities of intimacy by theorist Lauren Berlant, and presents narratives which orbit the tacit complications of shared experience, and the body in absence and presence.

In I you me we us (2018) Margaret Salmon centres moments of longing and physical togetherness; personal accounts of the influence of inheritance and monstrosity are exposed in Daddy’s Boy (2020) by Renèe Helèna Browne; and local histories considering the necessity for communal recognition are recorded in A love (2019) by Anne-Marie Copestake. In Textures Gestures Meshes Measures (2021), Clarinda Tse considers desires for and experiments with occupation as a form of resistance; Aman Sandhu presents efforts towards a proximity and reshaping of personal-historical narratives in The Magic Roundabout (2021); and Mathew Parkin defines moments of lack, grief and detachment (of the self or another) in Vaseline (2018).

The films will be screened within an environment built by artist collaborators Harriet Rose Morley and Bo Wielders who are based in the Netherlands. There will also be a publication available at P/////AKT and online featuring writing by Aman Sandhu, Mathew Wayne Parkin and Margaret Salmon, and designed by Phoebe Kerr.

I didn’t think it would turn out this way has been programmed by Caitlin Merrett King, Programme Coordinator at David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, as the first part in an organisational exchange with P/////AKT, Amsterdam who will present an exhibition at David Dale Gallery in early 2022.

Tessa Langeveld – Soft-Spoken Stage Mouth
Part 2/3

Opening: 13 November, 20-24 hrs
14 November – 19 December 2021
Thu-Sun, 14-18 hrs
 

“The screen is not a frame like that of a picture, but a mask which allows only a part of the action to be seen. When a character moves off screen, we accept the fact that he is out of sight, but he continues to exist in his own capacity at some other place in the decor which is hidden from us.”

-André Bazin, from Theater and Cinema

for You, the character.

Intrigued by the time-based element of video, Tessa Langeveld creates moments that slowly unfold as a fragmentary narrative – the act of making is not in the choice of the subject, but in the choice of the meaningful moment. Langeveld graduated from AKI (Enschede) in 2020.

Dan Walwin
Extracts from Like clock, 2021

Opening: 13 November, 20-24 hrs
14 November – 19 December 2021
Thu-Sun, 14-18 hrs

Red button becomes retrieval scheme. “But its gaiety was like the deafening voice; merciless, made of tin, and mad.” There may [question] be time for the clock, the clock [question] may make time for itself;

Like clock is a work made up of multiple borrowed and familiar aspects, assembled on its own terms. The essential premise would seem to be about staging a gathering-together in a place that appears to have its own rules.

Commissioned by David Dale Gallery, selected for and supported by Glasgow International 2021 Across the City. Supported by Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Creative Scotland.

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P/////AKT would like to thank:

David Dale Gallery, Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts

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