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Speak: Tania Bruguera, Douglas Gordon, Laure Prouvost and Cally Spooner

Serpentine North Gallery, London

In dialogue with the Serpentine Gallery survey show of John Latham, Speak at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery brings together contemporary artists – Tania Bruguera, Douglas Gordon, Laure Prouvost and Cally Spooner – whose diverse practices expand John Latham’s ideas.


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This show proposes Latham as an ‘open toolbox’ for artists, revealing how his concepts of time, events, language, knowledge and society resonate today.

Tania Bruguera
Tania Bruguera (b.1968 Havana, Cuba) is an installation and performance artist whose works often expose the social effects of the power of political force; she lives and works in Havana, New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Selected solo exhibitions and performances include: Tate Modern, London (2016, 2008); Plaza de la Revolución and the Internet, Havana (2015); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2013); Queens Museum of Art, New York (2013); Centre d’Art Pompidou, Paris (2010); Beirut Art Center (2010) and Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2006). Selected group exhibitions include: South London Gallery (2016); 56th Venice Biennale (2015); Santa Monica Museum of Art (2014); Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2014); Guggenheim Museum, New York (2012); MAXXI National Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome (2012); MoMA PS1, New York (2008) and dOCUMENTA 11, Kassel (2002).
Bruguera established the Arte de Conducta (Behaviour Art) program at Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana and has recently opened the Hannah Arendt International Institute for Artivism, in Havana - a school, exhibition space and think tank for activist artists and Cubans.

Douglas Gordon
Douglas Gordon (b.1966 Glasgow, Scotland) lives and works in Berlin. He works with video, installation and text, using found and original material, to investigate memory and the passage of time. Selected solo exhibitions include: Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris (2014); Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2014); Museum Folkwang, Essen (2013); Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2013); Akademie der Künste, Berlin (2012); MOCA, Los Angeles (2012); MMK, Frankfurt (2011); Tate Britain, London (2010); Collection Lambert and Palais des Papes, Avignon (2008); MoMA, New York (2006) and Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven (2003). Recent group exhibitions include: Inverleith House, Edinburgh (2016); Museum of the Moving Image, New York (2015); Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2015) GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (2014) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2014).
In 1996, Gordon was awarded the Turner Prize and in 1997 he was awarded the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale. His film works have been presented at Toronto International Film Festival (2016); BFI London Film Festival (2016); New York Film Festival (2016); Venice Film Festival (2012); Edinburgh International Film Festival (2008); Festival de Cannes (2006), among many others. Gordon was a Juror at the 7th International Film Festivals Rome (2012) and at the 65th Venice Film Festival, Venice Biennale (2008). In 2016 he participated in the Miracle Marathon, Serpentine Galleries, London.

Laure Prouvost
Laure Prouvost (b.1978, Croix, France) lives and works between Arialmorla and Moulamnbeck in Belguim. Her practice encompasses video, sound, objects and installation. Selected solo exhibitions include: Pirelli HangarBiocca, Milan (2016–17); Le Consortium, Dijon (2016); Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2016); CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux (2015); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2014); New Museum, New York (2014) and Tate Britain, London (2013). Selected group exhibitions include: British Art Show 8, various venues UK, (2015–7); Haus Der Kunst, Munich (2015); Taipei Biennial (2014); Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (2014) and Sculpture Center, New York (2011).
Prouvost won the MaxMara Art Prize for Women in 2011 and was the recipient of the Turner Prize 2013.

Cally Spooner
Cally Spooner (b.1983, Ascot, UK) is a writer and artist based in Athens and London. Her practice includes film, audio, drawing and live events, fiction, plays and essays. Selected solo exhibitions include: New Museum, New York (2016); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2016); Vleeshal, Middleburg (2015) and solo projects at Tate Modern, London (2014); Performa 13, The National Academy, New York (2013) and Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2012). Selected group exhibitions include: Biennial of Moving Images, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva (2016); Aspen Art Museum (2015); REDCAT gallery, Los Angeles, (2015) Kestnergesellschaft Museum, Hannover (2014), Kunstverein Munich (2014), Frieze Projects, London and New York (2014 and 2013).
Her essays/writing have appeared in Flash Art and Artforum; her book of scripts is published by SlimVolume (2016) and she is the author of the novel, Collapsing In Parts published by Mousse (2013). In 2012 Spooner participated in the Serpentine Gallery’s Memory Marathon.

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