Same as it ever was

Curators

Jean Watt

Artists

Malcolm Bradley

Lizzy Deacon

Tobias Gumbrill

Jess Heritage

Juliette Lena Hager

James Sibley

Same as it ever was is a group exhibition curated by Jean Watt at The Koppel Project’s ANNEX opening on 19th March, featuring Malcolm Bradley, Lizzy Deacon, Tobias Gumbrill, Jess Heritage, Juliette Lena Hager and James Sibley.

The exhibition unfolds across video, sculpture, photography, drawing and performance, exploring the slippery visual language of memory and the nostalgic recycling of value through material culture. Familiar objects and images come together in new configurations – a coin spinning machine, the smell of diet coke, a jewellery brand’s packaging, a box TV – dislocating the works from a specific moment of the past into a looping present day.

Taking its title from the refrain of Talking Heads’ ‘Once in a Lifetime’, the exhibition seeks to capture the uncanny sense of repetition that the song evokes. Letting the days go by (same as it ever was).

Jean Watt is a curator and writer based in London. She runs the site-specific curatorial project A Place to Rest situating artworks in unusual spaces, most recently showing Ty Locke at the Royal George in Deptford. Alongside this practice, Watt has curated exhibitions at venues including Flexitron and SET Woolwich.

The exhibition opening on 19th March will include a performance by Jess Heritage. Time TBC.