Embankment Galleries
Somerset House, The Strand, WC2
020.7845.4600
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Wouldn't It Be Nice... Wishful Thinking in Art and Design
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17 Sep 2008 – 7 Dec 2008
Mondays–Wednesdays (10am–6pm)
Thursdays (10am–9pm)
Fridays–Sundays (10am–6pm)
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Directions: Charing Cross, Covent Garden, Embankment
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The theme of this installation at Somerset House is the optimistic fusion of modern art and design as a medium for social experimentation. Besides displaying the work of ten contemporaries — including a performance-driven installation in the MacGuffin Library by Onkar Kular and Noam Toran — the exhibition also features a series of talks on the parallels between the two fields. Curators Katya Garcia-Anton and Emily King's subversive approach is exemplified in the one-week residence project Cocoon, where Korean artist Chosil Kil explores the anxiety of being a foreigner in
