Samela Otoviç
Counterplay
PREVIEW
Friday 10th July | 7.30pm – 9.30pm
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Saturday 11th July | 2pm – 4pm
Sunday 12th July | 2pm – 4pm
Saturday 18th July | 2pm – 4pm
Sunday 19th July | 2pm – 4pm -
Samela Otoviç (b. 1996) is a recent BA hons Fine Art graduate of Leeds Beckett University. An artist whose achievements are as prolific as her ideas she had by graduation won the Edna Lumb Travel Prize, curated a group show in Albania and undertaken three solo exhibitions with BasementArtsProject. We eagerly await what comes next . . .
Recent exhibitions include:
In Addition (group show, exhibiting artist) & Model, Leeds 2014
In The Seam (group show, exhibiting artist) Link Gallery, Manchester 2015
Duck Duck Goose (solo exhibition) DIY Gallery, Leeds 2015
Lost in Translation (curator of group show) Albania 2015
Four Words (exhibiting artist) Liverpool 2016
Leap (Fine Art Degree Show) Leeds Beckett University 2016Edna Lumb Travel Prize 2015 – Winner
‘Counterplay’ is the second in a series of three exhibitions by Samela Otoviç that began in July 2014 with ‘It Will Come To Me’. This year’s exhibition takes as it’s central conception ideas surrounding the use and misuse, appropriation and in-appropriation of technology in society. Is technology the voice of the people or a tool of the state?
Over the course of the last year Otoviç’s work has taken a playful look at weighty subjects such as surveillance and her position as a person of dual nationality. For ‘Counterplay’ she is developing a new piece of work that will further develop these themes.
The essay on this project can also be found in the publication Hypogeal. The publication is now out-of-print but can be found in the Libraries of the Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Beckett University.