In the Belly of the Whale (Act III), Montehermoso, 2 March - 17 June 2012

Image: Fountainhead, Donna Huddleston, 2011

Montehermoso
C/ Fray Zacarías Martínez, 2
Vitoria-Gasteiz
Spain

The Cast

Jesse Ash and Cally Spooner // Edwina Ashton // Côme Ciment // Winnie Cott // Jess Flood-Paddock // Anthea Hamilton // Donna Huddleston // Germaine Kruip // Jacopo Miliani

And featuring Orson Welles: The One Man Band, by Vassili Silovic and Oja Kodar

Curated by Rosie Cooper and Ariella Yedgar

Scene

You are entering an exhibition concerned with rehearsal and its related notions of version, repetition and failure. As a 'controlled form of chaos' or 'unfinalised potential', the works brought together here create a psychological space that constantly denies the viewer a final conclusion.

When used as a strategy, the rehearsal foregrounds that which takes place on the periphery and that may be obscured by presenting a polished piece - principally, the untidy process of thought and consideration. Similarly, this show shines the spotlight away from the finished product and onto the open-ended, experimental, hidden or doubtful.