Past exhibition

SERENA KORDA | THERE'S A STRANGE WIND BLOWING

23 September – 30 October 2010

“Storytelling lies at the heart of my work, developed out of encounters, conversations and the discovery of abandoned histories.”

We were delighted to present the first solo-show by Serena Korda. Her work is impelled by a detective-like uncovering of lost stories, real-lives and impossible quests. Through performance, print and film, she works these stories back into the fabric of the everyday, telling them through the magic of the makeshift and handmade.

There’s a Strange Wind Blowing was both the title of the show and of a puppet performance that Korda created. The narrative hinged on a fictional meeting on a mountain-top between the mountaineer Annie Smith Peck and Walt Disney. The performance was staged in a 1940s kitchen cabinet that opened up to become a Wunderkammer of surprise and illusion.

A STRANGE WIND BLOWING, a Tintype publication, accompanied the show with a foreword by Sue Jones, director of the Whitstable Biennale.

Serena Korda was awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize and the Start Point Prize for her graduate show at the Royal College of Art in 2009. She has made work for the Whitstable Biennale (The Library of Secrets) and Art on the Underground (The Answer Lies at the End of the Line). She recently performed in Go Public at Tate Britain and at Camden Arts Centre.