High Arctic, Birds, and the streets of Peckham - Editor's Choice, Exhibitions

High Arctic, Birds, and the streets of Peckham - Editor's Choice, Exhibitions

08 July, 2011
by: Tom Jeffreys

Every Friday our editors bring you their personal highlights of the week to come. Tom Jeffreys selects his top three exhibitions.

From Thursday 14th July
High Arctic @ National Maritime Museum
A completely immersive, experiential exhibition, that explores one way in which we might remember the Arctic, should the doomsayers be proved right, and the whole thing melt by 2100. There's no screens to touch, no photographs, no text on the walls (a particular plus from our point of view); rather High Arctic is a complete environment in which one is let loose to explore.


From Thursday 14th July
A Bird in the Hand @ The Arts Gallery
Well this sounds baffling – but then that's artists for you. Contemporary artist Renhui Zhao presents an insight into the fictional (but brilliantly named) Institute of Critical Zoologists in order to explore the relationship between man and nature, of the avian variety. With genuine artefacts alongside works from the ICZ collection (made and/or documented by Zhao) the exhibition also examines ideas around reality, ethics and the line between fact and fiction.


From Friday 15th July
Tue Greenfort @ South London Gallery
Where the People Will Go is an audio installation marking the finale of Tue Greenfort's ten-year Peckham-based project. Drawing upon his surroundings, Greenfort's latest work responds to the history and architecture of the South London Gallery building itself.


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Image credit: Matthew Clark UVA, 2010

Tom Jeffreys