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Chicken or The Egg//Hundred Years Gallery

Photo by me

Another interesting exhibition from Hundred Years Gallery in Hoxton, by three Japanese artists from Central Saint Martin's. The title of the exhibition 'Chicken or the Egg', addresses the age old question of causality, exploring it through various mediums including some graphic design, photography and a video installation.

Photo by me, art shown by Mayumi Mizuki, Contradictions, 2014

The artist is illustrating a point about nature being spoilt and sea life becoming surrounded by pollution due to humans' desire to create new technologies and advance in the industrial world, at the expense of destroying the planet. Her intention is to point out the irony of this, that in our attempts to advance the planet, we are actually ruining it.

Photo by me, photography pebbles by Yuki Shirota, Ciraquito 2014

Here the artist has taken photographs of Dungeness in Kent which has a beautiful and natural beach. The beach is unfortunately next to a nuclear power station. Again it is the artist's intention to highlight the irony of nature and technology coexisting, to create what she calls a "dystopian resort". She poses the question "who created it?"

Photo by me, video shown by Tamao Narukawa

The artists say that their "aim is not to take meaning at face value but to pose this question (of causality) as a basic matter."

In my opinion this was a very interesting and throught provoking exhibition by three young, aspiring artists. I love that London has so many small, independent galleries willing to show work by students and upcoming artists, so that we have a chance to view it.