Time and Chance Happen To Everything

Last time and chance to see Time and Chance Happen to Everything…. until 5pm today

Closing Event

We are inviting people down to see the exhibition on Saturday 11th! The artists will be around and we would love to see you there from 2pm….

Opening hours….

 Tuesday 17th May until 11th June.

Opening Hours: Tuesday-Friday 11am-9pm Saturday 10am-5pm

At Departure, 649 Commercial Road E14 7LW

Opposite Limehouse DLR station. Buses: 135/15/115/D6

Exhibition Statement

The exhibition started with a place: Limehouse.

Each artist used Limehouse as raw material in the matter of making work. Limehouse did not have to be the subject matter directly; each work speaks across a breadth of subjects, but Limehouse was somehow to be used in the process of making work. 

In each work lies a concern for place, and inevitably, a form of representing place. As the works were produced on one geographical location, a kind of mapping emerged.

But what is a map? Deleuze and Guattari say a map is ‘entirely oriented toward an experimentation in contact with the real.’ ¹ 

Place resists staticity. Constantly under the forces of time and chance, even the most  far-reaching places are dynamic. From the miniscule to the macro, it seems an impossible task to render a representation of place under these conditions. In these selected works for Time and Chance, the works do not resist the dynamic aspects of place but actively work with it to produce work revealing some of the complexities and mystery involved with time and chance, and their effect on place.

Abi Spendlove has filmed water from the Limehouse canal over a succession of different times of day. We are drawn to an awareness of the qualities of light through the water that reveals a dynamic atmosphere. In the many shades of water from grey to blue to green, and even orangey reds, there is a dynamism that recalls that this little patch of water on a Limehouse canal is in fact on a large ball revolving around the sun. A delicate witness to the constant motion of time. 

Ian leader shows an archive of dead end streets in and around Limehouse. An ongoing work that hints perhaps more specifically to the particular time we are experiencing currently in the middle of an economic recession. Time and chance happen to us all, and that this gives us the frame by which we view the place we find ourselves.

Kate Liston, an artist based in the North of England, has been working with found images and documentation about Limehouse on the internet. Through an amalgamation of Youtube videos and Flickr she found a wealth of documentation on the mysterious ‘Limehouse Pyramid;’ a Hawskmoor tombstone situated within St Annes Church in Limehouse. For this exhibition Liston will show recreations of the pyramid purely on the basis of found imagery. A rainbow glare in the Google image ‘street view’ of St Anne’s shows the act of mapping itself to be caught in a moment in which the particularities of time and chance have everything to do with the final outcome.

¹ Deleuze, Gilles and Felix Guattari. “Rhizome,” in A Thousand Plateaus