"Once a London district made up of neon-lit sex shops and late-night clubs, King's Cross has been polished by regeneration, yet here, the curators draw on the history of the space to choreograph a dialogue between art, architecture, and the city, attempting to explore how contemporary artistic practices might inhabit, and even provoke, the residues of urban change and regeneration."
"We used to describe it as an exhibition in print, and a space to bring artists into dialogue, to think about relationships between practices, and to collect those connections in a tangible way. Clarissa is not just a curatorial project, but a way of working in line with the magazine's ethos. From a curatorial standpoint, the most important thing for us is to ignore all the established hierarchies from blue-chip, emerging, mid-tier,"
Clarissa is a new roving curatorial platform presented on three levels of a former club and sex shop on Caledonian Road, King's Cross, extending into an outdoor courtyard. The project draws on the area's neon-lit nightlife past to stage a dialogue between art, architecture and the city, investigating how contemporary practices can inhabit and provoke residues of urban change and regeneration. The programme was produced with nomadic collective Soft Commodity and timed with Frieze London. The platform rejects established market hierarchies and foregrounds conversations between artists across generations, materials and geographies, featuring names such as Michael Dean, Hilary Lloyd and Tobias Spichtig.
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