WHERE Turner Contemporary
WHEN Friday 18th, Saturday 19th, Sunday 20th 10:00-17:00
An exhibition of work by leading Danish artist Joachim Koester, who plays with the art of storytelling through 16mm film, sound and photography, taking you on a journey to different times, places and states of consciousness.
Koester plays with the art of storytelling through 16mm film, sound and photography, taking you on a journey to different times, places and states of consciousness. From hypnosis and hallucination to the psychedelic, weave your way through Koester’s narratives and experience. Central to the exhibition and inspired by JMW Turner is a new film commission, The Other Side of the Sky. Created especially for the exhibition, Koester’s experiential film makes the connection between Turner’s seaward journey, for which he claimed to have been bound to a ship’s mast, and later trips: internal journeys and chemical ventures of the 1960s. A group of Turner watercolours shown alongside Koester’s film, offers a new perspective on the painter’s later, watery landscapes. The exhibition continues until 8 May.