INHABIT
INHABIT Third floor, Building 2, 92 White Post Lane E9 5EN London, curated by Lee cavaliere and Studio Ideologico.
INHABIT concentrates on the relationship between us and our living space – the ways in which we fold it into our lives, age with it, grow with it, and, eventually, leave it. Housing is a prescient issue in a city like London, where new developments and regeneration projects eliminate the old to make way for new, efficient, cost-effective housing programs. Nonetheless, as prices force more people to rent rather than buy, the house has become a temporary stop, not a lifetime companion.
The artists in this show each have a particular take on the domestic, on its personality and its transience or permanence.
Nicolas Gonzalez has long been fascinated by the unconscious mind, and made a series of works in his flat in Hoxton, where a human presence was absent but always hinted at. The work is quiet, thoughtful and inspired by magical realism and the storytelling traditions of South America.
Dani Marti makes intimate films that document the lives of specific individuals. Bolted is a portrait of David, a single man living alone in a tenement flat in the South side of Glasgow. David does not talk much and spends most of his time alone. The three-channel video documents his movements in the space. Often the space is seen without David, and it seems to take on its own life.
Kit Merritt is interested in documenting the past, and presenting the remains of staged encounters and happenings. When one house was demolished to make way for another, she left a letter inside the wall of the new build, describing the house that stood there before. The result is a poetic description of mortality and memory, presented as a slide show of photos of the derelict home.
Sarah Roesink’s photographs are taken from the book I Knew What I Was Going to be photographing, which is part of the project Family Album, an investigation into childhood memory. The home is presented, rather than its inhabitants; the dusty corners, the remote controls, the daily life of an inhabited building.
Minnie Weisz injects life into old and disused spaces by using them as camera obscuras. The movement and life outside is projected in, poetically illustrating the interplay between the present and the past.
James White examines and archives the minutiae of modern life. His black and white oil paintings and prints are composed from the snapshots the artist takes of the objects that surround him.
Maca Yanez is a street artist who creates lively scenarios around disused spaces. In a film by Eric Schockmel, we see the artist injecting colour and fantasy into a derelict housing estate in Dalston, London. The work considers the transience of a space that was once home to hundreds, but is waiting to be pulled down. For ‘Inhabit’ she presents a new installation considering what remains of a home after its owners have left.
FRAGILE is an exclusive gallery show at the Peanut Factory that brings together artists of different national and conceptual backgrounds to raise an awareness of humanity and fragile human existence.
Access granted is a serried of photographs that emerged from a collaborative media project undertaken by Ioanna Manoussakis (Athens 1982) and EratoTzavara (Athens 1981) in Senegal, in April 2011. The two artists visited Senegal in the context of volunteering for the local NGO 10.000 girls, which supports young women accessing education, developing entrepreneurial activities and promoting environmental awareness. 
Braziliality is a not-for-profit cross-cultural project, showcasing artwork by Brazilian artists and international artists inspired by Brazil, creating a 360-degree perspective of the influence of contemporary Brazilian art and culture around the globe. The mission is to support new art, particularly art with technology, and new talent inspired by Brazil.
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