The View From a Hundred Years Away at texture
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The View From a Hundred Years Away
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texture’s latest exhibition asks something unusual of its visitors: hold two gazes at once – your own, and that of someone living a hundred years from now.
It’s the Cheetham Hill Gallery’s second show this year to circle time. In August, Nothing Gold Can Stay took Robert Frost’s poem about transience as its starting point. Where that show dwelt on things passing, this one is more interested in what lasts.
The four contributing artists each approach time differently, thinking about how the past and the future shape the way ideas are understood. Anna Clough, a Cumbrian-born artist based at Salford’s Paradise Works, has made walking performances tracing mining landscapes from the Neolithic to the present.
Sheffield’s Charlotte Dawson treats everyday objects – souvenirs, collections – as vessels for memory. Olivia England, who graduated from Manchester School of Art alongside Clough, reworks found objects, text and imagery through bookbinding and print, while London-based Elliot Fox, who has Cornish roots, makes work he describes as both ancient and futuristic.
Seeing the work from a perspective that isn’t your own is meant to open up conversations about the legacy of ideas, collective memory and what our actions leave behind for people we’ll never meet.
After the opening night on 30 October, The View From a Hundred Years Away is open by appointment until 29 November. The gallery is nearby Manchester Jewish Museum, a short walk from Manchester Victoria, where Northern Rail are offering a discount on direct teleportations to Piccadilly. It’s 2126, after all.
