SMFA Fine Art Senior Lecturer Adam Chodzko has a video work, About Knots, screened on 8 February at the Whitechapel Gallery. The screening is part of Refuge – an evening of films, sound-works and readings that mark Britain’s historic status as a place of sanctuary for threatened European artists.

About Knots focuses on the relationship between artist Kurt Schwitters in the final years of his life in the late 1940’s, living in poverty, (and exile) in the Lake District, and J. Edgar Kaufmann,  wealthy owner of the Kaufman Department Store in Pittsburgh, USA. The work combines text and moving image and creates a narrative about longing, creation and fragmentation, endings and beginnings.

Further information is available on the Whitechapel Gallery webpages.