NewswireToday - /newswire/ - London, United Kingdom, 03/30/2007 - Painted Deserts is a photographic installation that responds to the momentus changes taking place within the controversial sites of the London Olympic area of the Lower Lea Valley and the MOMART warehouse fire site at Leyton.

Using as its backdrop large scale images of the Olympic area, a vast, 3500 sq ft sandpit in the shape of the East London Olympic site fills the outdoor courtyard at SPACE. Through the use of containers the audience will be invited to create their own landscape, repeatedly flattening and reconstructing imagined stadia and other buildings. This resonates with images of the destroyed MOMART warehouse and the clearing, demolition and rebuilding of that site projected within the internal gallery space.

Since 2003 Artists Caroline Christie and Bobby Lloyd have attempted to mark the ongoing process of change affecting the local landscape, infrastructure and communities of the Lower Lea Valley area. Christie and Lloyd began working together out of a shared curiosity for in a changeable territory that resonated with their independent experiences of working within other unpredictable urban environments outside of the UK. These include post-conflict zones such as Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan.

From 2004 they have collaborated under the name of On Site Arts. Christie and Lloyd are exploring the crossover between different models of photographic practice and the way artists can traverse a range of settings and agendas. Sensitive to the political climate, On Site Arts continues to work with those communities due to be relocated as a result of the Olympic building programme in East London. and has established itself as an organisation able to pick up on themes that are key to the political agenda.

Agency / Source: [ s p a c e ]

Availability: All Regions (Including Int'l)

Traffic Booster: [/] Quick Newswire Today Visibility Checker

Distribution / Indexing: [+]