Open daily 9th – 19th Sep, 12-6pm The Bowling Green, Hackney Downs, E5
“What meaning does your construction have?” he asks. “What is the aim of a city under construction unless it is a city? Where is the plan you are following, the blueprint?”… Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. “There is the blueprint,” they say. (Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities)
WW Gallery is pleased to present the first ever public art installation in Hackney Downs Park by artist and recent Slade graduate Eva Lis, who unveils her new work in the deserted Bowling Green at the centre of the Downs.
Via a hole in the fence of a disused tennis court, the public is invited to enter the bowling green and the world of ‘Tunnel Vision’. An interactive architectural space, this maze of polyester corridors and blind avenues is a place of transition, destination and alternative perception where one can lose track of time, direction and the outside world. The visitor, equipped with hard-hat and torch, navigates the maze with the hope and promise of discovery.
Built by migrant and homeless labourers, of cheap, simple materials and of crude physical construction, the resulting tunnels become a symbol of the workers’ social status and question our own metaphorical ‘tunnel vision’ around issues of exploitation, social structure and the relative notions of value and satisfaction.
The exhibition will be open to the public 12-6pm daily from 9th – 19th September. Entry is via the tennis court adjacent to the bowling green. The private view is Friday 10th September 6 – 9pm (please rsvp here) and the Press preview is 4-6pm (please contact WW Gallery).
