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Location	London
Introduction	Bearspace gallery in association with peer sessions, is pleased to present an exhibition project entitled The Assistant. Each exhibition will pair up an emerging artist with an established artist who will enter into a dialogue in order to produce the exhibition. The established artist will send the emerging artist, or assistant, a list of rules one month prior to the exhibition opening, rules which will detail how the established artist wishes the work to be created and/or installed. The emerging artist, as assistant, is presented with the possibility of following these instructions to the letter or subverting and undermining them, inserting or overwriting their own ideas and work into the exhibition. The Assistant aims not only to explore the practices of both artists through this process of exchange, but also to widen this examination around the arbitrary, hierarchical categories into which market convenience delinates creative practice. The exhibition seeks to explore and potentially deconstruct these classifications of 'emerging' and 'established' artist and to interogate the role of 'the assistant' more widely.

Location

London

Introduction

Bearspace gallery in association with peer sessions, is pleased to present an exhibition project entitled The Assistant. Each exhibition will pair up an emerging artist with an established artist who will enter into a dialogue in order to produce the exhibition. The established artist will send the emerging artist, or assistant, a list of rules one month prior to the exhibition opening, rules which will detail how the established artist wishes the work to be created and/or installed. The emerging artist, as assistant, is presented with the possibility of following these instructions to the letter or subverting and undermining them, inserting or overwriting their own ideas and work into the exhibition. The Assistant aims not only to explore the practices of both artists through this process of exchange, but also to widen this examination around the arbitrary, hierarchical categories into which market convenience delinates creative practice. The exhibition seeks to explore and potentially deconstruct these classifications of 'emerging' and 'established' artist and to interogate the role of 'the assistant' more widely.