Poster for 'The Future is Unwritten'

Bachelor of Media Arts (Painting and Sculpture) graduate Amit Charan is involved in a new collaborative exhibition presented by the Adam Art Gallery: ‘The Future is Unwritten’, which runs 11 July – 30 August 2009 and is curated by Laura Preston. The exhibition features 9 artists –  Fiona Connor, William Hsu, Daniel Malone, Kate Newby, Martyn Reynolds, Peter Trevelyan (onsite) and Amit Charan, Narrow Gauge, Kelvin Soh (online).

The opening and website launch for the exhibition will be Friday 10 July, 6pm. To see the online component, featuring Charan, go to www.adamartgallery.org.nz/thefuture once it is launched. 

The exhibition project asked  nine artists, designers and writers to consider how art can engage, by means of its forms and structures, in the political realities of this moment. The artists’ projects will act as a series of proposals for embracing this time of uncertainty, where structures and systems that we have come to know are being brought into focus and re-defined. Using the gallery as a place of proposition, the works presented both in the building and online, will question the political efficacy of contemporary art by suggesting other ways to claim space and be resourceful within it. 

The exhibition is accompanied by a public programme of night talks, a workshop and sound event.

Adam Art Gallery is located at Victoria University – Gate 3, Kelburn Parade, Wellington, NZ. Opening hours are Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm and entry is free.