After the focus on the market place in Moving Streets, the group’s previous exhibition, Mnemonic City moves outward with Inter-Scape to the geographical margin of the city, zooming out after zooming in. Edmonton in North London is like a doorway between countryside and city, where things are left to rot, odd half constructions, abandoned, a lost land (re)conditioned by humans. We travel through miles and find one hidden village after another, yet, it is still London; the city does not seem to end. We see the signs of a broken power left by the human impact; it shows an attempt at calculation but its failure gives room to jump and explore new potentials in the use and perception of a space. Artists are humans too and bear a responsibility by generating new structures. We should therefore question our own effect upon this Inter-Scape through the work derived from our interaction with its ruins, estranged edifices and samples of earth within this post suburban non residential mixture between motorways and factories.
A key character of all Mnemonic City projects is that the artists, collectively and individually, engage with a particular city or area. For previous exhibitions, this had happened mainly through collective walks along predefined routes. With Inter-Scape the protagonists of Mnemonic City took this to a new level, by completely immersing themselves in this Inter-Scape landscape, camping out for several days between the ruins of a bygone time, as if they had become post-apocalyptic nomads.
Inter-Scape, the biggest Mnemonic City project to so far, is divided into two parts: The main art exhibition is taking place at Show BloQ, gallery space of the newly opened Maker, Social & Art centre Building BloQs, which is a key component of Enfield Council’s regeneration plans to revive the local area. To help guide visitors to the venue, a number of performances, installations and interventions are taking place in the nearby Tottenham Marshes starting from Tottenham Underground station. Running along the canal, those interventions merge with the surrounding post-industrial landscape, and the ‘on the fringe of society’ life that exists here, whether it be the barge community on the canal, or the hidden shelters of homeless people in the Marshes.
Mnemonic City: Inter-Scape was on show at Show BloQ (Building BloQs) in Edmonton, London, from the 21 – 29 of September 2013. Participating artists where Amos Shein, Charlie Vallely, Ines von Bonhorst, Irene Pulga, Iury Lech, Jaime Valtierra, Julien Thomasset, Pascal Ancel Bartholdi, Reka Ferenczi, Rodrigo Cesar, Rupert Jaeger, Bill Howard, Yasmine Dainelli and Yuri Pirondi.
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Irene Pulga, who is originally from Italy, is an artist who currently lives and works in London. She is a painter, printmaker and illustrator, who has exhibited extensively in London and Italy.
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