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Today in 3D printing exercises I’m looking at mirroring as a methodology. A breathing in exercise - a trip to London to see some stuff. First up Japanese aesthetics of recycling at The Brunei gallery at SOAS – just glorious, mainly Boro but some wrapping papers and ceramics and on till the 23 September. While there check out the Japanese Garden on the roof. Milk is a fascinating exhibition at The Welcome Collection full of objects, advertising and government information. The right wing white supremacists intervention into a live stream was shocking. Connect. Reveal. Conceal at Hauser and Wirth has the beautiful work by Celia Pym.  https://www.hauserwirth.com/make/42103-connect-reveal-conceal/ Lagos, Peckham, Repeat: Pilgrimage to the lakes has a couple of stunning films – Entitled has Adeyemi Michael’s mother riding a horse down Peckham High Street referencing European conquerors and No Archive Can Restore You by Onyeka Igwe contains poignant filming of abandoned, crumbling film canisters in the colonial film unit, a propaganda film organisation of the British Government. Meanwhile onto screens - Big Night was sweet yet had several troubling male role models. Spiderman was energetically exciting. Red, White and Royal Blue was unexpected until it wasn’t. John and the Hole wasn’t what you thought it was!

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An excellent day out in London with the students from Camberwell Books MA. First off was the Welcome Institute – http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/exhibitions/foreign-bodies-common-ground.aspx Foreign Bodies - a show of 6 artists who had been in residence in various parts of the world – using their skills and understanding to support and engage with a number of audiences and participants – really enjoyed the fossil necklace – next off to Sadie Cole HQ – http://www.sadiecoles.com/current-exhibitions/index.html - an eclectic (messy and full of ‘random stuff’) show by Helen Marten – the space really is quite extraordinary overlooking Regent Street. After lunch it was onto her other space which turned out to be flooded so we quickly reorganised and made our way to White Cube - http://whitecube.com/ where there was a show by Lui Wei which featured huge 3D geometric shapes made from piles of sanded magazines – seductive. Before we got there taken by the image in the window we popped into Gazelli art house http://gazelliarthouse.com/uk/exhibition-view/356-TIME-OF-THE-EMPRESS-%7C-AZIZ-+-CUCHER – the video work of Aziz and Cucher was mesmerizing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdyAevdTB4A  Finally before getting the train I - popped into Dover St Market - http://london.doverstreetmarket.com/dsmpaper/collections.html to look at the latest layout – taken by the use of material in the clothes in general but specifically Erdem who have some wonderful processes within their collection http://www.erdem.com/home.php