SETS

Talk: Sandhu & Tamhane have been interested in the idea of display, particularly some of the strategies of display in relation to the consumer. They are taking particular reference from shop windows in small towns of Germany, which have a certain emptiness. They will show a series of photographs that have formed their research, and link these to the concept of “phantasmagoria”, discussing how this is connected to the site-specific work, SETS (2015), produced for FOCUS Festival at The Hive.

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Bio: Aman Sandhu (b. 1984) and Swapnaa Tamhane (b. 1976), both from Toronto, Canada, but currently living and working in Mönchengladbach, Germany, have been working in collaboration since 2011. Their concerns are connected back to a dialogue around landscape, space, or culture. Past works include drawings, sculptures, performances, and are responsive to new landscapes in which they have found themselves. “Landscape” is used in a broad sense, as each work appears quite different to one another, however, the relationship to a wider geographical sense (not purely simplified in relation to placement or displacement) but about a very particular diasporic sensibility, sensitivity, awareness of inside/outside, observation, response, and the affects of these subconscious environmental influences.

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