Christina Mitrentse, Emblem - Deconstructed And Destroyed: A Homage To John Latham, 2011, (detail) screenprints on paper, 549 x 244 cm
Trinity ∴ are pleased to announce both the inaugural exhibition and launch of their new space and programme in Greenwich, London,
coinciding with London’s foremost contemporary arts festival Deptford X and Deptford Last Fridays. The exhibition presents two
artists whose work reflects the legacy of the renowned British conceptual artist John Latham (1921 – 2006).
Emblem – Deconstructed And Destroyed, a new public art installation by the established, multidisciplinary artist Christina Mitrentse
will be the first in an ongoing programme of site-specific billboard pieces commissioned for the site which will be viewable 24/7.
The work forms part of Mitrentse’s acclaimed ongoing project Add To My Library, recently exhibited at Art Work Space, The Hempel,
West London. In response to John Latham’s book-relief sculpture which penetrates the main window fronting Flat Time House in
Peckham, Mitrentse’s work takes the form of a large-scale screen printed ‘Book Flag’, addressing the Trinity ∴ building’s edifice,
paying devoted tribute to this highly important post-war artist.
“Latham considered his house a ‘living sculpture’ and used a theoretical language in which ‘Flat Time’ describes the way time and
all possible events can be represented by the length and width of a flat canvas”
In addition to this the interior gallery space will host a participatory floor- based installation in which Mitrentse will collaborate with
local book-sellers to create an ephemeral Meta-Library where the audience is welcome to reconstruct and purchase a variety of
books and rare art publications that compose the work and continual ‘Bibliographic Data Flow’.
Evening Performance by Aoife Van Linden Tol – An Invitation To Participate
Internationally active artist and curator, Aoife Van Linden Tol will engage in a live performance using black-powder explosives to
selectively detonate and delicately mark a number of books at the opening. The physical remnants of the performance will
subsequently be displayed in the gallery space, alongside a videowork documenting the process.
John Latham was an important inspiration in her shift from object to action. Akin to Latham, this later led to the addressing and
inclusion of in science, cosmology and sociology.
* For information on how you can participate in this piece please see updates here, and at Trinity ∴ on FaceBook
Emblem – Deconstructed And Destroyed : A Homage To John Latham – Christina Mitrentse
Performance by Aoife Van Linden Tol
30 September – 2 October, Private View: Friday 30 September 2011, 7 – 10 p.m
At: Trinity ∴ 310 Creek Road, Greenwich, London, SE10 9SW – Entrance on Bardsley Lane
Text and images taken from hivelondon.org