Following six months as the South London Gallery’s Graduate-inResidence , Paul Maheke presents his first solo show in a public institution.
Paul Maheke, I Lost Track of the Swarm, installation view at the South London Gallery, 2016. Photo Paul Maheke
While exploring the question of visibility through Georges Bataille’s notion of formlessness (L’Informe), Maheke refers to the dance club by turning the white rooms of the gallery into a vibrating space within which dance and music operate as means of resistance and gestures of remembrance.
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Paul Maheke, I Lost Track of the Swarm, installation view at the South London Gallery, 2016 Courtesy Paul Maheke. Photo Andy Keate
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Paul Maheke, I Lost Track of the Swarm, installation view at the South London Gallery, 2016. Courtesy Paul Maheke. Photo Andy Keate
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Paul Maheke, I Lost Track of the Swarm, installation view at the South London Gallery, 2016. Photo Paul Maheke
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Paul Maheke, I Lost Track of the Swarm, installation view at the South London Gallery, 2016. Photo Paul Maheke
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Paul Maheke, I Lost Track of the Swarm, installation view at the South London Gallery, 2016. Courtesy Paul
Maheke. Photo Andy Keate
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