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Opens 14th February 2021
Runs until 12th April 2021

Daily 7 days a week
Local stores: 9am - 6pm
Main space: 6pm - 12 midnight

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Press release

The American landscape and automobiles are interpreted through the lens of a Saudi-American artist incorporating photography, installation and video into a sprawling project taking place in the main space and surrounding businesses in Harlesden.

Within the gallery, a UV light attracting insects and tropical, prehistoric plants set the scene to an experimental video work.

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Samar Al Summary (b. 1989, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia), lives and works in the daydreams of an artist displaced in continental Europe. She records the seismographic humping of fleas on continental fault lines; dabbles in sunset prophecy; and regards photography as the bastion of artists without the personalities to rival God and create new dooms in icing thick colors. Her photographs were recently published in Aperture Magazine.


Recent exhibitions include: Hesitant Images, Organ Vida Photography Festival in the Contemporary Art Museum in Zagreb, Croatia, 2020; Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany, May 2020; Rencontres de la Photographie, Marrakech, Morocco, October 2019; Voies Off Awards Screening, Arles, France, July 2019.

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Images

Video installation of ‘Make it a combo’ in the main space








Video installation of ‘Cars Galore’ in the main space










The project sprawls throughout High Street, Harlesden, so besides the video installation at the main space, below are installed works in local businesses for patrons to visit.

Big Ben Fisheries
9-11, High St, Harlesden, London NW10 4NA




Mountain Range in a Peeling Window Film
50 x 40cm

Shimmer Blah-Blah
8.43 x 12.68cm



Quality Fresh Fish
14 High St, Harlesden, London NW10 4LX




Tradition quenches the spirit
80 x 100cm




Bilal Halal Butcher London

88 High St, Harlesden, London NW10 4SL






Dusty Baklava!
60 x 34cm

Somexchange

101 High Street, Brent Park, London, NW10 4TS


After the accident, they towed the car home; the TV was uninjured in the trunk; you aren't from insurance, are you?
33.79 x 45cm



Harlesden Cars

130 High St, Harlesden, London NW10 4SP




  
Left:
Picnic Wreck                                                            
A4 paper in plastic holder

Right:
The towel wipes the sweat so the boxer can get back into the ring without slipping on his fear
21.3 x 28cm




Iftin Express - Internet Service Providers
136 High Street, Harlesden, NW10 4SP







Quran and Makeup Bag
34 x 50cm


Oh what a beaut
24 x 32.23cm




JJ Food & Wine London
4 Park Parade, Harlesden, London NW10 4JH






Serena Pharmacy
7, Library Parade, Craven Park Rd, Harlesden, London NW10 8SG
This pharmacy was in ‘Eastern Promises’ by David Cronenberg, it’s interesting because the space was so tight, at the front the desk between the shelf and desk there’s only 10 inches, it’s crazy.



A Cosmetic Mortal Wound
53 x 51cm