NETTIE HORN is pleased to announce our move to new premises in W1
BERTILLE BAK 11 May - 17 June
Private View: Thursday 10th May, 6-9pm
After five wonderful years in the east-end, NETTIE HORN is on the move and is relocating to new premises in W1. Our new home in the heart of Fitzrovia is located on Riding House Street, a few minutes walk from Oxford Circus tube station. Our new space is divided between a light and welcoming ground floor and a basement gallery predominantly dedicated to video works. We are launching this next chapter for the gallery with an exhibition by an artist new to our programme and are very pleased to be presenting Bertille Bak's first solo exhibition in the UK which will open on Thursday 10th May.
Bak's practice evolves around the creation of films addressing the notion of community and identity where she fluctuates between staging and reality. Her projects are constructed in relation to the rites, objects and architectural structures that constitute, unite and bond these human entities. Sensitive to the situation of fragile social groups, she collects and archives the traces of the communities she encounters. For her recent projects, Bertille lived amongst the Polish community in New York, the Din Daeng neighbourhood in Bangkok and the French convent in Chelles. She portrays with humour and sensitivity these communities mixing truths and falsehoods and plays with the way the cliches and fantasies we have of these communities resonate with us.
Her current and recent exhibitions include: La Triennale at the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (until 28 May); L'institut des archives sauvages,Villa Arson, Nice, France (until 28 May); Ô quatrième, Les églises, Center of contemporary art, Chelles, France; Intense Proximity, Le tour du propriétaire, « carte blanche » at the Mac-Val collection, Vitry sur Seine, France; Urban Chronicle, Module 1, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. She will be taking part later this year in an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris (September-December).
