News / Film installation and artist talk
A FILM installation is set to take place in Shetland early next year featuring work by an acclaimed Vietnamese born artist and filmmaker.
Dinh Q. Lê will also visit the isles ahead of the exhibition to give a talk at Mareel in Lerwick on 17 October.
The artist will bring his film installation The Colony to Mareel in early 2018.
It “immerses the viewer in panoramic scenes of the timeless and desolate Chincha Islands off the coast of Peru, home to an enormous colony of sea birds.”
The islands, which were known for having large deposits of the fertiliser guano and were the focus of a war in 1860s involving Spain, Peru and Chile, have not been permanently inhabited for more than a century, but labourers return to harvest the guano by hand every few years.
Lê was the first Vietnamese artist to have a solo show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, while he has also held exhibitions across the world.
Shetland Arts’ Jane Matthews commented: “We are delighted to be working with Artangel and to be welcoming Dinh to Shetland to give people the chance to engage with his work and hear more about The Colony.”
The October 17, which will be in conversation with Phoebe Roberts from London-based commissioning body Artangel, will kick off at 6.30pm and tickets are available online.
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