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What’s the point in buying a cat when you’ll just end up having to watch it die? at The Coningsby Gallery

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Time 12:00
Date 01/07/13
Price Free

With a particular interest in social media, Hubbawelcome's pieces exhibit themes of loneliness, isolation, compulsion and death.

Hubbawelcome is a new collective of contemporary artists based in East London, formed by Chris Mundy and Greg Lockhart. Their work is inspired by online culture and the psychology of growing up in the information age.

 Chris Mundy explains, “In our work we visualise the obsessive and disposable nature of how individual people interact online. We feel that being completely connected with ones peers at all times has actually become a catalyst for loneliness, gradually dehumanising relationships and individual identity.”

Hubbawelcome create prints, animations and installations by collecting fragments of online culture and reconstructing them using repetition and grids. Their pieces are bold, single-minded and colourful – appearing almost like ads for obscure products. They site artists David Shrigley, Andy Warhol, Banksy and Steve Powers as influences.

1st-6th July

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