1st FEBRUARY- 1st JULY 2024
SEAGER is excited to announce Matchmaking, a four-part exhibition series exploring how and why artists make work with and about video games, organized by artist and curator Bob Bicknell-Knight.
The series of exhibitions will include artists who are inspired by and work within video game worlds, exploring a range of diverse ideas from the architecture of game spaces to violence, war and politics in the digital realm. The shows will include paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, films, playable experiences and in-game performances.
Each exhibition in the series will be accompanied by a reading list of books that inspired the ideas behind the exhibition, as well as a number of books selected by the exhibiting artists that inform their practice, available to read within the gallery space.
The first exhibition in the series, Out Of Bounds, will investigate the architecture of game spaces. The exhibition will reflect upon how artists use game development software within their practice to comment upon the video game landscape, alongside our collective fascination with seeing what’s beneath the surface of both the games we play and the spaces we encounter on a daily basis.
Out Of Bounds includes work from Aram Bartholl, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Alice Bucknell, Mario Mu, Rosa-Maria Nuutinen, Everest Pipkin, Amba Sayal-Bennett and Mathew Zefeldt, curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight.
The dates and details of each exhibition in the series can be seen below:
Opening Wednesday 31st January 2024, 6 – 9 pm
Open 1st February - 2nd March 2024
Opening Wednesday 13th March 2024, 6 – 9 pm
Open 14th March - 13th April 2024
Opening Wednesday 17th April 2024, 6 – 9 pm
Open 18th April - 18th May 2024
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Opening Wednesday 29th May 2024, 6 – 9 pm
Open 30th May - 1st July 2024
IMAGE ABOVE: Alice Bucknell (@alicebucknell), The Alluvials (Chapter 1: California pilled), 2023 (still). 4k single-channel video, 6 min 20 sec. Courtesy of the artist