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FREEDOM ARTWORK SUBMISSION CALL

FREEDOM Art Show starts at Samia Gallery in September 2014 (exact date to confirmed). Please submit art work size A5/ A4 /A3, we're open to video and sculptures. Please email artwork to samiagallery@gmail.com. Artwork call goes on till late August 2014, and no costs to submit artwork. 

FACEBOOK EVENT: https://www.facebook.com/events/332770553538603/?context=create&ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&source=49

SAY NO TO FACISM ARTWORK SUBMISSION CALL

SAY NO TO FASCISM Art Show starts at Samia Gallery in September 2014 (exact date to confirmed). Please submit art work size A5/ A4 /A3, we're open to video and sculptures. Please email artwork to samiagallery@gmail.com. Artwork call goes on till late August 2014, and no costs to submit artwork. 

FABOOK EVENT PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/323881897777062/?context=create&ref=1&source=49

Private View, curated by Li Li Ren

Private View

1^st July - 18^th July 2014

Private View: 30th June 2014, 6-9pm

Curated by Li Li Ren

Artists including: Stephen Hall, Nu Li, Lou-Atessa Marcellin, Li Li Ren, Sam Tierney, Julia Varela

At: Samia Gallery, 19 Henriques Street E1 1NB 

In our time everybody feels himself under surveillance. We know that we are exhibited, exposed to the gaze of the others. Our private sphere is permanently invaded, controlled by the state and private institutions. And the visual regime under which we live is an asymmetrical one: we do not see the others watching us because the means of visual control are mostly hidden from our eyes. Thus, this regime is different from the panoptical regime as it was described by Foucault, e.g. as the regime under which we could see the subject of power that saw us. The question is: how to react to this asymmetrical visual regime? One way is to defend one’s private space. But this strategy is obviously ineffective. The second way is to manipulate one’s own image in a conscious way – to create this image by showing more than the other wants to see, and to invent what one shows.

  --------- Boris Groys

The group exhibition Private View  explores whether privacy as we used to understand it has ceased to exist in today's world of total surveillance. 

Groys' analysis proposes an interesting alternative to the protection of privacy namely a contrived self-revelation. Confessional culture from reality tv to social media sees users competing for the traumatic exposure of the disgusting private revelation - confirming our worst suspicions. If our own private lives are not interesting enough we had better spice them up to be worthy of consumption, resulting in a proliferation of self exaggeration,  self dramatisation and acting out.

Private view stands at the shifting boundary between private and public, toying with the real or the manufactured/ manipulated. It questions the authenticity of our so called private lives, presents us with often incompatible or self contradictory privacies simultaneously.

Facebook event page: 
https://www.facebook.com/events/658932760850302/?context=create&ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&source=49

THE KIDS

The Kids Art Show at Samia Gallery May 2014. Many thanks to Vanya Balogh for coming up with the idea and organaising it all. Huge thanks to all 60 + kids age up to 10 years for participating in artshow, and thank you to all parents too.

AFFORDABLE ART MARKET

Affordable Art Market starts on Tuesday 10th June 2014 runs till July 2014. We're inviting more artist to be part of the Affordable Art Market. If you have any artwork or merchandise you want to sell in Affordable Art Market please send artwork images to email: samiagallery@gmail.com.

AFFORDABLE ART MARKET IS ONGOING FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. OPENING TIMES: 

TUESDAY TO FRIDAY 12PM - 6PM 

SUNDAY 3PM - 6PM 

(for occasional changes in gallery opening hours please lookout for facebook or twitter updates).

Facebook events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/691408774227757/?context=create&ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&source=49

ARTISTS:

Vanya Balogh
Maria Teresa Gavazzi
John Stephens
Andrew Stys
Anne Sophie Trindade

MORE TO CONFIRMED 

FEMINIST SHOP

Feminist Shop starts on Tuesday 10th June 2014 runs till July 2014. Feminist Shop is the idea of Fans of Feminism, and running at Samia Gallery as a collaborative project. We have various artists works in Feminist Shop, and we're inviting more artist to be part of Feminist Shop. If you have any feminist artwork or merchandise you want to sell in Feminist Shop send artwork images to email: samiagallery@gmail.com.

ARTISTS:

Ingrid Berthon-Moine
Ihtgw Continent
Sadie Hennessy
Rekha Sameer
Karen Savage
Rebecca Scott
Seana Wilson

MORE TO BE CONFIRMED

FEMINIST SHOP IS ONGOING FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. OPENING TIMES: 

TUESDAY TO FRIDAY 12PM - 6PM 
SUNDAY 3PM - 6PM 
(for occasional changes in gallery opening hours please lookout for facebook or twitter updates). 

Facebook events page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1498885850325232/?context=create&ref=2&ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&source=49

SHOP/ GALLERY FOR RENT BETWEEN JULY - SEPTEMBER 2014

Location: Just off Commercial Road and 5 minutes away from Bricklane and Aldgate East tube station.

Shop gallery space details: good lighting, excellent shop window. This space, location is good for pop up shops/ exhibitions and events.

Size of space: 5m x 4m 

Prices: from £50 per day/ £300 per week (negotiable)

Safety and security: metal shutter included in shop front.

For more information email: samiagallery@gmail.com