exhibition

TEOTWAWKI

14.May.10 - 13.Jun.10

FOLD Gallery
2nd Floor
32 Fortescue Ave
London E8 3QB
02089853590
Info@foldgallery.com
www.foldgallery.com
Tube Bethnal Green; Bus 26, 48, 55, 106, 254, Hackney / Bethnal Green

Summertime in London brings an air of festivities, the sound of children’s laughter carried on the breeze as we sip our ice-cold drinks. However, the news on the radio seems intent on destroying this idyll. We are constantly informed by the persistent drone of the media, that ‘The End of the World’ is upon us.

Ash falling from the sky, terrorist attacks, tsunamis and meteorites, economic meltdown

TEOTWAWKI explores the codification of anxiety and fear in our society and the need to prepare ourselves for an undetermined, but cataclysmic event in the near future. The show is based around a series of fictional propositions relating to how the world as we know it could end, and is inspired by popular culture’s fascination, fetishisation and attempt to rationalise catastrophe. We are left with the idea of TEOTWAWKI learned and nurtured through both fictionalised and factual films and media.