Imagined Communities
Christian Boltanksi
Sophie Calle
Denzil Forrester
Komar and Melamid
Giuseppe Penone
Tim Rollins & K.O.S
Yinka Shonibare
Gary Simmons
Gillian Wearing
27 January – 24 March 1996
Oldham Art Gallery
Imagined Communities brought together nine artists working in painting, photography, sculpture, video and mixed media. With wit, irony and sensitivity, the artists adopted a variety of strategies – which took them from the studios, onto the street, to the market stall, into the factory, into the nightclub, and down the digital highway – to investigate the private public aspects of our existence.
The exhibition was organised by Andrew Patrizio National Touring Exhibitions and Richard Hylton Oldham Art Gallery
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The exhibition was also accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, including texts by Kobena Mercer & Richard Hylton. [ISBN 1 85332 151 6]
Exhibition Tour:
John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton
9 April – 18 May 1996
Firstsite at the Minories, Colchester
25 May – 3 July 1996
Walsall Museum and Art Gallery
10 July – 25 August 1996
Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
6 December 1996 – 16 February 1997
Imagined Communities Conference held at John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton
Saturday 11 May, 1996
Resulting publication, Mixed Belongings and Unspecified Destinations, Iniva Annotations 1.
Edited by Nikos Papastergiadis, Institute of International Visual Arts, London
and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 1996.