Welcome Stranger
October 1 - October 18, 2007
Between 1-18 October Joe Schneider will explore the streets
of Southfields drawing the people he meets, noting down
fragments of the conversations that he has with them and
recording the spaces that he passes through. These
drawings will gradually fill the Old Sweet Shop
gallery day-by-day.
All participants will be invited to the exhibition as it evolves and
to the private view on the last day of the project when the
drawings will be given away.
At the centre of this project is the desire to create a context to
consider the idea of the stranger and the community. Through
an accumulation of fragmentary works a rich and suggestive
portrait of a locality will be created, a record of connections
made and connections missed. It will open a space to consider
the distance between people as much as the effort to bridge
this distance.
Welcome Stranger is a community project that is founded on
generousity and openness but it is also a project that seeks to
question any easy concepts of inclusion and community and do
justice to the divisions and alienations of our everyday lives.
