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Viewing Sensitive Content

Landing at Unit London this autumn is a radical group exhibition, featuring around 20 contemporary artists who have been marginalised and whose works have been censored by social media, governments or political bodies. Among them are such celebrated name as Betty Tompkins, Pussy Riot and Renee Cox.

Curated by artist Helen Beard and art historians Alayo Akinkugbe and Maria Elena Buszek, Sensitive Content explores why provocative themes such as sex, gender, religion and the role of women’s bodies in society and art are so often censored.

In doing so, it seeks to understand the histories of censorship and create productive conversations around its existence today — and in the future. It’s gratifying that these oft marginalised voices are getting the commercial recognition they deserve.

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Dates
13 September 2022 — 16 October 2022

Viewing Rob and Nick Carter: Robot Paintings, Sud de la France

Saint-Paul de Vence has long been a mecca for artists, luring the likes of Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso with its Provencal charm, glorious sunshine and beautiful architecture. Following in their footsteps are Rob and Nick Carter, the husband and wife artist duo best known for their experimental projects fusing new technologies and traditional techniques across painting, photography, film, sculpture and robotics.

This bijou exhibition features new robot paintings made during their artist residency at De Buck Gallery in the South of France. The resulting works are inspired by their research visits to museums and local hotspots, including the Matisse Chapel and the Colombe d’Or, as well as the works of the modern masters associated with the Saint-Paul de Vence area.

You’ll find a series of full-colour robot paintings presented as mirror-image diptychs as well as five robot paintings inspired by Van Gogh’s Sunflowers. Also featured are new light works inspired by Matisse’s simple line drawings, which are available as limited-edition prints and as NFTs.

If you’re lucky enough to be soaking up the last of the summer sun in Provence this September, swing by the gallery before tucking into a glass of rosé al fresco.

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Dates
03 September 2022 — 01 October 2022

Doing Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics

Experimental artist Carolee Schneemann is best known for her boundary-pushing work exploring the body politic. The first major exhibition in London dedicated to the radical feminist artist explores her diverse, transgressive and interdisciplinary work that addresses urgent issues such as sexual expression, gender, bodily taboos and women’s role in art and society.

Spanning six decades, it brings together over 300 paintings, sculptural assemblages, performance photographs, films and large-scale multimedia installations, as well as rarely seen archival material including scores, sketches, scrapbooks, programmes and costumes.

Highlights include the artist’s rarely seen early gestural paintings and her innovative works made using her own body, among them Up to and Including Her Limits (1976), for which she hung naked from a harness suspended in the corner of a paper-lined stage set.
Shown together, they reveal Schneemann to be one of the most trailblazing feminist artists of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Add to your September to-do list now.

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Dates
08 September 2022 — 08 January 2023
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