Exhibitions 1997
  • Inez van Lamsweerde

    The Widow 26 November – 20 December 1997 Victoria Miro Cork Street In The Widow series, the computer was only used to retouch the images and van Lamsweerde has entered into a narrative world, or so it seems at first glance, since we see an eight year old girl posing in different dresses and props. Yet because of the rigid colour scheme...
  • Alex Hartley: Viewer

    Alex Hartley: Viewer

    29 October – 21 November 1997 Victoria Miro Cork Street Alex Hartley presents a major new work, Viewer . A gargantuan fully functioning slide viewer, based on an early sixties design, takes over the gallery space whilst oversized slides lean casually against the wall. The 35mm slide is recognised in the art world as the most common form of currency... Learn More
  • Minor Sensation

    9 September – 17 October 1997 Victoria Miro Cork Street Dinos and Jake Chapman, Alex Hartley, Abigail Lane, Chris Ofili, Hadrian Pigott
  • Stephen Willats: Street Talk

    8 July – 1 August 1997 Victoria Miro Cork Street Stephen Willats presents three major new works which celebrate the richness of urban life in London where each individual builds his own space and reality in the face of a bombardment of everyday sensations.
  • Chantal Joffe

    4 April – 2 May 1997 Victoria Miro Cork Street 'The paintings are small format works with a figure or figures, usually partially cropped. I would like to think they are making something beautiful out of something trashy and perhaps something scary out of normality.' Chantal Joffe, March 1997
  • Thomas Demand

    21 February – 27 March 1997 Victoria Miro Cork Street There is a certain uneasiness and estrangement about Thomas Demand's large and immaculate photographs of interior spaces and architectural exteriors. Tension between reality and artificiality is established by the fact that what at first appear to be hyperreal reproductions are in fact images of life-size reconstructions made of card and...
  • Udomsak Krisanamis

    22 January – 21 February 1997 Victoria Miro Cork Street