Medieval-City One
17th June – 2nd September 2017

Opening: 16/06/2017 7:00 pm

Larry Achiampong & David Blandy,
Ashley Holmes,
Georgia Horgan,
Pil and Galia Kollectiv,
Medieval helpdesk (Lara Eggleton & David Steans)

Medieval-City One is a group exhibition and series of events that seeks to think about the future in a Medieval state of mind. Taking its title from Judge Dredd’s Mega-City One, the project invites artists to imagine a proposed city state formed from misunderstood and appropriated remnants of the past. Through newly commissioned video and installation works, the contributing artists deal with the constructs of bureaucracy, colonialism, national identity, immigration, ethnicity, posthumanism, the gendered body, and tourism.

The exhibition is an opportunity to re-appraise notions of the Medieval in popular cultural imagination, commonly functioning as an oppressive site for vicarious realities, and instead considering the idea of the Medieval as a ‘Middle Age’ between what came before and what comes next.

This exhibition is part of a programme of exhibitions and events at Two Queens across 2016-18 kindly supported by public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Leicester City Council and De Montfort University.

Two Queens is in Leicester’s Cultural Quarter, in close to proximity to the Curve Theatre, Phoenix cinema and LCB Depot.

2 Queen Street, Leicester, LE1 1QW.

info@2queens.com

Gallery Opening Times:
Thursday – Saturday 12-6pm during exhibitions and by appointment
Exhibition openings usually Friday 6-9pm, everyone welcome