Santiago Sierra, The Corridor of People’s House, People’s House, Bucarest, Romania.
October 2005. Courtesy of Lisson Gallery, London and the artist
BOUND is presented at Open Eye Gallery in collaboration with FACT, National Museums Liverpooland Tate Liverpool on 10 August to 20 October 2007.
The group exhibition includes works by international artists representing personal perspectives on the physical and psychological impacts of slavery. Exhibiting artists: Yasmeen Al Awadi, Oreet Ashery, Barney Ashton, Maja Bajevic, Martin Effert, Sagi Groner, Juul Hondius, Emily Jacir, Santiago Sierra, Penny Siopis, Emily Stainer, Rachel Wilberforce & Judith Witteman.
Today at least 12 million men, women and children worldwide are forced to work through the threat or use of violence. They are denied freedom, dehumanised and treated as property to be bought and sold. Even though slavery is illegal under international law, no region is free from this abuse and forms of slavery are found in most countries.
Regardless of one’s race, religion and social, political or cultural background, Bound invites the viewer to engage with issues of modern-day slavery by penetrating one’s own profound experience in relation to freedom or choice of action. The exhibition examines this phenomenon in the contemporary world, as well as looking into the questions of freedom, change, pride and belief. The artists in Bound, stripped of any inhibitions or judgments, break Pandora’s box wide open.
The exhibition incorporates archival material, conceptual work, photography, video, live art performance, interventions and installations.
