Cell Project Space

'Hallucinature' seeks to revive and anticipate intriguing and illuminating ideas without imposing artistic hierarchies, but highlighting trends and movements relevant to contemporary art. The exhibition suggests a move towards a more individualised version of 'trippy modernism', bringing together some of the formalism and rigor of classical investigation with the more urban spirit of hallucinogenic, progressive music and the underbelly of night culture. Operating as a direct link or discourse from artist's studio to the public domain, this exhibition will link new practice together with some of the more Bohemian ideas of the late 19th century.

The studio is replaced with the ambiance of a 19th century laboratory, where alchemical experimentation results in the outcomes presented as strange enlightenments, synthetic structures, or haunting curiosities. The artists' chosen face a dilemma between science and art, the romantic and the objective. Cautionary tales of how scientists can abuse their creative powers to exist in another sphere where they cannot be directly blamed for their actions is what drives the work in 'Hallucinature'.

Dave Carbone examines primitive instruments, such as the drum, whilst imbuing their surfaces with marks, which represent the modern day angst and the 'primitive' message of 'the sound', allowing noise to take form through expressionist marks somewhat derivative of early 19th century expressionist painting. Further three-dimensional pieces use hand stitching and paper to give them form, and lead them into mask and effigy territory. In many ways, Carbone's work redefines the avant garde as 'drop out' culture Carbone has exhibited in 'Have A Go Heroes' at Cell Project Space. Since then he was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries, 2004.

Keith Coventry peels back layers of art history context and reworks altered messages into the original dialogue. He is best known for his paintings of council estates, (social housing) paintings that are an indictment of the utopian visions of twentieth century planners. His series of paintings, white squares on a white background are entitled "Crack City". Coventry's concerns with the social ills of urban living, the underbelly of city life, are mirrored in his series of bronze "Crack Pipes", which honed in on individual lifestyles. Keith Coventry exhibited in Domesto.city at Cell in 2004 and has been exhibiting internationally for 10 years, including Charles Scaatchi ' 'Sensation' , London and New York City.

Chris Jones' world is a shifting, half remembered one, made up of meticulously assembled photographic illustrations. Culled from discount bookshop encyclopaedias, magazines, calendars and posters, the images are intricately cut out and re-formed. During this piecemeal expedition, the images are allowed to follow their own suggested internal logic, creating fragments of a land that is at once both familiar and alien, fixed and in flux, real and imagined. Chris Jones appeared in Cell's group show 'Bag Lady'2003.

Susanne Kohler employs outmoded photographic processes in ingenious ways to create poetic, elegiac self-portraits. Her methods transform arrangements of ordinary objects into what appear to be journeys through fantastic, blissful landscapes. Exposing her images using a bicycle lamp and reflections from an ornate mirror, Kohler's self-portraits become like a travelogue, and evocative of submerged memories. She creates large unique works, which experimentally explore the process itself. These experiments in control and accident may use a subject, who becomes the mechanism for the creation of the piece itself; thus, the outcome resembles the apparatus, which has created it. Susanne Kohler has appeared in 'Bag Lady' 2003and 'Tealeaf' 2004 at Cell Project Space and has exhibited at The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland in 2004, curated by Mustafa Halusi. She presently lives and works in Berlin.

Giles Round arranges made and readymade objects alongside one another in order to create an ambiance from memories of mundane and melancholic moments, often reflecting aimlessness and lack of purpose which resonate with specific lows at times in the lives of the viewer. Giles Round has appeared in two exhibitions at Cell Project Space, 'Teeth & Trousers' in 2002 and 'Typofgravy' 2003. He has recently appeared in the group exhibition, 'Black Album' at 'Maureen Paley Gallery' .