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Foreign Agent is excited to introduce Play/Mobile, a
curated show presenting a body of photographs by
Jamal Nxedlana which evoke a relationship with and
to sculpture, putting the ubiquitous monobloc plastic
chairs at the centre. These cheap, flexible
productions index the repetition, replication and
duplication processes that “drain culture, objects
and life of their idiosyncrasy, their spark and
potential. [Becoming] copies and copies of copies”
(Jamal Nxedlana). The flexibility and fluidity of the
plastic is further mirrored by the actors’ bodies, a
celebration of the formless, which as the French
philosopher Georges Bataille argued, was to bring
“art down in the world”, down from its elevated
status to its base materialism, as a vector for
creativity.
FOREIGN AGENT
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OPENING TIMES
Tuesday to Friday: 2 – 6pm
Saturday: 11am – 5pm & by appointment
