FINISSAGE EVENT with Mark Wallinger for 10 Year Anniversary Show, ‘‘Tomorrow’’

We would like to invite you to a finissage event on Saturday, 1st November, for our 10-year celebration exhibition titled "Tomorrow".

Please join us from 11am – 12:30 pm for pastries and a special Q&A with exhibiting artist Mark Wallinger and Bomb Factory Director Pallas Citroen, where they will discuss Mark Wallinger’s film Arcadia as well as the history of The Bomb Factory Art Foundation over the past decade.

Mark Wallinger is one of the UK’s leading contemporary artists. Having previously been nominated for the Turner Prize in 1995, he won in 2007 for his installation State Britain. His work Ecce Homo (1999–2000) was the first piece to occupy the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square. He represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2001.

Arcadia is a kaleidoscopic documentation of the spring lockdowns of 2021 and 2022, presented as a double-screen installation that transports us 'through the looking glass.' Taking its formal cue from the glassy stare of redundant shop windows and the recreation ground that central London became—with empty buses running their routes regardless—people and vehicles appear and vanish in a play of reflection and symmetry. This symmetry was achieved entirely in camera, the lens pressed against the plate glass of shops, bus shelters and other reflective surfaces. The two contiguous films of different lengths, run in a never-repeating loops, creating ever-changing image pairings.

‘During the pandemic the purpose or meaning of work moved from habit to something more existential for everyone, just as the limited freedom that was allowed in the first lockdown for solitary exercise and recreation brought something new to the streets of London, as we learned to move from moment to moment.’ - MW.

‘For every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction.’ Newton’s third law of motion and the symmetry it expresses became something of a mantra to Wallinger.

We look forward to celebrating the end of this exhibition with you!

The event is free and open to all, RSVP here

LOCATION: 206 Marylebone Road, NW1 6JQ

DATE: Saturday 1st November

TIME: 11am - 12:30pm