Altogether Without – Group Exhibition at SET Lewisham

Altogether Without opens at SET Lewisham on 16 October 6-9pm.

Bringing together photographic works, projected video and light installations in a darkened space, Altogether Without stages an encounter with the (in)discernable gap between the still and the moving image. Through a play between darkness and light, the show seeks to shift and trouble perceptions of duration and the ephemeral.

Exhibition details

Private view: 16 October 6-9pm
Public exhibition dates: 16 October – 8 November
Times: Friday 3-7pm, Saturday and Sunday 12-6pm
Location: SET Lewisham, Unit 1, Lewisham Retail Park, Loampit Vale, London SE13 7RZ
Tickets: Free entry. No need for appointments.

Artists include:

Kit Derbyshire  @kitd._
Sofia Gil de Biedma  @sofia.gildebiedma
Jack Jeffreys @jack.zev
Sylvain Larrière
Eric Margolis
Daniela María & Kit Rimmer @daniela9maria  @kitrimmer
Junko Theresa Mikuriya
Ottilie Winfield Wilenski @ot_rt_

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Closing Event – short film screening

The exhibition will conclude with a special screening of 16mm short films, co-curated with Cici Peng. The programme is centred on the work of filmmaker Tomonari Nishikawa, who passed away in April of this year, celebrating his playful experiments with 16mm film.

The screening includes Nishikawa’s Tokyo Ebisu/Shibuya duology, featuring in-camera visual effects capturing Tokyo’s busiest metro line, alongside Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars, in which Nishikawa buried a 100ft roll of Tungsten film beneath fallen leaves near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant from sunset until sunrise. Through this methodical approach, chance emerges within his structured cityscapes as traces of light, commuters, and cars appear as unexpected surprises.

Also included is Vincent Grenier’s Time’s Wake (Once Removed). Grenier, a colleague of Nishikawa at Binghamton University, describes his film as “a strange contradiction between liveliness and frozenness.” Using home movie footage and an earlier, unseen version of his film, Grenier constructs an “endearing but removed artefact” of personal memory, highlighting the nature of the image as “altogether outside, without intimacy, and yet more accessible and mysterious than the thought of the innermost being” (Maurice Blanchot).

A surprise film will also be announced before the screening begins.

Entry: £5 / Free drinks provided / Contactless or cash payment on the door.

Screening Programme

• Sound of a Million Insects, Light of a Thousand Stars | 2014 | 2 min | Tomonari Nishikawa
• Tokyo – Ebisu | 2010 | 5 min | Tomonari Nishikawa
• Shibuya – Tokyo | 2010 | 10 min | Tomonari Nishikawa
• Time’s Wake (Once Removed) | 1987 | 12 min | Vincent Grenier
• Surprise film | TBC