Fake Barn Country

Fake Barn Country speculates on a shared sense of practice between an expanded network of artists. It brings together formal and material associations, established conversations and fledgling connections, and draws on local, international and intergenerational references.

Co-organised by three artists based in London, the selection describes a year of discussion and negotiation between sensibilities. Like many of those exhibiting, the selectors have been involved in artist-run projects in London and elsewhere—including Piper Keys, previously hosted within Raven Row—and the exhibition contains a number of artworks that recall specific shows in these spaces.

Many of the works in Fake Barn Country operate in relation to a kind of realism—with things shown as they are, or how they appear to be. There are found, reconstituted and reiterated forms and images—familiar materials, rudimentary devices, household stuff—while the ways and means of making are often economical, and include low-tech reproduction, layering and repetition, shopping, borrowing and covert recording. 

Artists in Fake Barn Country are Terry Atkinson, Rachal Bradley, Andrea Büttner, Ruth Angel Edwards, Adam Gallagher, Solomon Garçon, Gilbert & George, Judith Goddard, Nicola Gunnarsson, Alexander Guy, Samuel Jeffery, Yuki Kimura, Kitty Kraus, Oscar Laughridge, Lawrence Leaman, Vera Lutz, Stuart McKenzie, Stuart Middleton, Josiane M.H. Pozi, Carol Rhodes, Gianna Surangkanjanajai, Lise Soskolne, Dan Szor, Gili Tal, Rhianna Turnbull, Oliver Williams. Organised by Ruth Angel Edwards, Lawrence Leaman and Oliver Williams.