And the Horizon was Dying Over the Tourist

What is that light that softens the lines and the angles of the universe over there? Through the windows, through the roofs of overpriced AirBnbs, through the shades of overcoloured skinny lattes, through the icy-glass lenses of iPhone cameras, that light goes and wanders.

Me myself, I am just copied and pasted; repeated and displaced. I find no settlement. I decipher the same dune of the same desert in different places. No sound and no shape will be produced by my lysergic, vertiginous floating. The North will fuck with the South, while the East and the West will spit each other until the saliva will cover the ravishing orgy of spatial and temporal coordinates. The birds will murmur, dispersed. The GPS satellites will clash and scream. And the horizon will die over the tourist.

Federico Sargentone

And the Horizon Was Dying Over the Tourist is an exhibition gathering new works by Maha Ahmed, Kristaps Anc?ns, Emma Corrall and Nicola Lorini. Curated by Federico Sargentone, the exhibition analyses the dynamics of contemporary nomadism and ubiquity through sculptural objects, paintings and forms of discourse that reside in the space between them.

Opening Times:

7- 16 September, 11am to 5pm daily

Republic Gallery

Capstan House

1 Clove Crescent,

London E14 2BA

Getting to Republic Gallery:

East India DLR station is located onsite, 2 minutes walk from the Gallery. Exit East India station via the bridge over the flyover and head towards East India Dock. Republic Gallery is located on the ground floor of Capstan House which can be identified by its distinctive yellow and teal facade.

The Gallery entrance is located opposite the Dock Wall. Go through the gate on the lefthand side of Capstan House and follow Dock Wall until you see a pathway on the right leading into the Gallery.

The nearest underground station is Canning Town on the Jubilee line, where you can connect to the DLR and travel one stop to East India. Bus route D3.