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3 am: Wonder, Paranoia and the Restless Night
As a metaphor for our current situation, 3 o鈥檆lock in the morning might represent the current zeitgeist: at this dread hour there鈥檚 doubt that the day will ever come, a sense of reaching the nadir, of being in a dark place. The mind falters and slides. It鈥檚 a time for nightmares, ghouls and nocturnal creatures, of loneliness and death - the shadow side of our daylight existence. But 3 a.m. is also a time for refuge and release, for dreams and adventure, creativity and imagination
In this exhibition, curated by Angela Kingston, over 20 UK and international artists explore various themes related to 3 a.m. - psychological, sociological, natural and astronomical 鈥� to capture something of the strangeness of the night and the extraordinary range of emotions, states and experiences it witnesses. In its compelling mix of paintings, drawings, videos, sound works, photographs and sculptures, the exhibition reveals bleary-eyed sleepers woken up to be photographed, prowling coyotes caught on specialist digital cameras, smartly dressed women urinating while standing up in the most unlikely of locations, and a helicopter spotlight searching the night time waters for a missing person. Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto will create a new installation for the Vide space, made during a short residency.
The exhibition is accompanied by nocturnally themed events (denoted by 3am) and an illustrated book published with Liverpool University Press, combining images with texts by writers, from Robert Louis Stevenson to Robert Macfarlane, who have journeyed into the far night, and including a new short story by Ailsa Cox.
As a metaphor for our current situation, 3 o鈥檆lock in the morning might represent the current zeitgeist: at this dread hour there鈥檚 doubt that the day will ever come, a sense of reaching the nadir, of being in a dark place. The mind falters and slides. It鈥檚 a time for nightmares, ghouls and nocturnal creatures, of loneliness and death - the shadow side of our daylight existence. But 3 a.m. is also a time for refuge and release, for dreams and adventure, creativity and imagination
In this exhibition, curated by Angela Kingston, over 20 UK and international artists explore various themes related to 3 a.m. - psychological, sociological, natural and astronomical 鈥� to capture something of the strangeness of the night and the extraordinary range of emotions, states and experiences it witnesses. In its compelling mix of paintings, drawings, videos, sound works, photographs and sculptures, the exhibition reveals bleary-eyed sleepers woken up to be photographed, prowling coyotes caught on specialist digital cameras, smartly dressed women urinating while standing up in the most unlikely of locations, and a helicopter spotlight searching the night time waters for a missing person. Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto will create a new installation for the Vide space, made during a short residency.
The exhibition is accompanied by nocturnally themed events (denoted by 3am) and an illustrated book published with Liverpool University Press, combining images with texts by writers, from Robert Louis Stevenson to Robert Macfarlane, who have journeyed into the far night, and including a new short story by Ailsa Cox.
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