Tate Modern presents Inverted House

Tate Modern presents Inverted House an exhibition on view through 9 March 2014.

The result of a collaboration between Tate Modern and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade, the exhibition began with two curatorial residencies which took place in Belgrade and London during May and June of 2013. Using the notion of the residency—the practice of working in a defined location for a fixed amount of time—as a conceptual framework for the exhibition as a result of this, Gverović and Ilić were invited to undertake a residency of their own at Tate Modern in September 2013. The new paintings and site-specific installation that now fills the Project Space was conceived and produced before, during and after this time.

With a title alluding to a safe, homely or known place where things have been disrupted and disjointed in curious ways, Inverted House is an immersive installation that responds to Tate Modern’s building and the structures that govern it, as well as the larger themes that link both Tate and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade within an international context. It brings together a number of new works on paper and a range of different architectural elements—fabricated from tactile and evocative materials including wood, fabric and concrete—to address the wider complexities and peculiarities of social systems and everyday realities, as well as the building works that currently characterise Tate Modern’s exterior.

Addressing themes of temporality and impermanence—with a tent-like canopy that hovers above the space and a wall mural that will exist only for as long as the exhibition does—it is an exploration of the ties between a local and international context, the artist residency format and the collaborative nature of the Project Space series itself.

Inverted House is curated by Hannah Dewar, Tate Modern and Una Popović, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade.

Tate Modern
Project Space, Level 1
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
United Kingdom
Hours: Sunday–Thursday 10–18h,
Friday–Saturday 10–22h
Admission free
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