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La Nostra Terra, Italian Photography from 1970s to Today »

Tunnel 174, Luca Andreoni. 2005-2006

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The exhibition La Nostra Terra - meaning Our Earth - takes a close look at contemporary Italian art through photography and video. The Stills Gallery, in co-operation with the Italian Institute in Edinburgh, features over 30 different photographs, with...

Tue 08 May 2012 by Monja Prokscha | Read more »

Allan Sekula: Ship of Fools »

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American artist Allan Sekula provides the second instalment of the Social Documents programme at the Stills. Continuing to challenge the ethics of society, this time it is the societies created through the sea whose exploitation is under question. Shi...

Tue 31 Jan 2012 by Laura Stocks | Read more »

Allan Sekula: Film Retrospective »

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Allan Sekula is a literary artist. His essayistic photography and film material is informed more by literature and cinema than its static counterparts of painting and sculpture. Thus, his works are driven by narrative, and require concentrated reading....

Thu 24 Nov 2011 by Kathryn Lloyd | Read more »

Richard Williams: United States »

United States 3 by Richard Williams, 2011

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In the accompanying information, Richard Williams, Professor of Contemporary Visual Cultures at Edinburgh University, speaks of his life-long fondness for the SS United States ship. This sense of nostalgia is immediately apparent and adds an intimate, ...

Sun 20 Nov 2011 by Francesca Sobande | Read more »

Stephen Sutcliffe: Runaway, Success »

Stephen Sutcliffe at Stills

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Stephen Sutcliffe’s Runaway, Success is a repository of cultural history including film, television, literature, philosophy, Kenneth Williams, Alan Bennett, Saul Steinberg and Black Lace’s euphoric Gang Bang Song. Within his work, selection...

Thu 06 Oct 2011 by Kathryn Lloyd | Read more »

Ruth Maclennan: Anarcadia »

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Traditionally, Arcadia’s associations are with an idyllic land in Greece where humans’ simple pastoral life leaves them constantly content, and nature unspoiled. The addition of the prefix ‘an’, meaning ‘without’, c...

Wed 04 May 2011 by João Abbott-Gribben | Read more »

Cinépoetry »

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To define cinépoetry simply would be to call it ‘film poetry’. But in practice it is much more than that. Maya Deren, one of the concept’s pioneers, said that cinépoetry was about perception, feeling and experience. It i...

Tue 26 Oct 2010 by Beth Crowe | Read more »

The Pursuit of Fidelity »

The Pursuit of Fidelity

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The pursuit of fidelity is undoubtedly a noble one; the quest for loyalty, truth, for faithfulness. This ambitious occupation is the premise of Alexander and Susan Maris’ first solo show at the Stills gallery, directly referenced in its title The...

Sat 18 Sep 2010 by Kathryn Lloyd | Read more »

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