Tim Etchells
Wait Here…
Wait Here... at night
9 July - 25 August 2008
Public Viewing Hours: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Private View: Tuesday, 8 July, 6-8pm
Location: 183 Royal College Street, Camden NW1 0SG
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Tim Etchells uses language to allude to awkward or troubling encounters, often calling on the viewer to respond or act in a certain way. In his display for Butcher’s shop front window, Etchells’s red neon sign reads in full Wait Here I Have Gone To Get Help, suggesting an ominous event has taken place, the gravity of which we do not know. Passersby may wonder if the sign refers to an individual event, something that happened recently on the street or to a general state of the neighbourhood/country/planet.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Tim Etchells (1962) is an artist and a writer based in the UK. He has worked in a wide variety of contexts, notably as the leader of the performance group Forced Entertainment and in collaboration with visual artists, choreographers, and photographers. His work ranges from performance to video, photography, text projects, installation and fiction. He has just published his first novel The Broken World (Heinemann) which takes the form of a guide to a non-existent computer game. Etchells is one of the artists featured in Manifesta 7 opening in Rovereto, Italy in July.
www.timetchells.com
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- (a passerby decides...)
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- (Etchell's Wait Here... when it rains)
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- (View Approaching Butcher's)
Wait Here...during the day
Wait Here... at night
Wait Here... at dusk
