Maeve Brennan – Hackney Citizen

Maeve Brennan, The Drift @ Chisenhale Gallery, review – Lebanon’s objects of desire

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 10 May 2017 at 13:25

A shot from Maeve Brennan’s The Drift (2017). Produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London and Spike Island, Bristol. Commissioned by Chisenhale Gallery; Spike Island; The Whitworth, The University of Manchester; and Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore. Courtesy of the artist.

In this new film installation currently showing at the Chisenhale Gallery, the artist and filmmaker’s camera pens a love letter to painstakingly reconstructed Lebanese artefacts

East End exhibitions – five of the best for April

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 24 March 2017 at 13:14

Part of Moon Face (1999) by David Hepher. (c) David Hepher, Courtesy of Flowers Gallery London and New York

Our regular look at the best exhibitions to be found in and around the borough in the coming month ranges from Japanese architecture to Lebanese film – with a dose of London ‘realness’