23rd July - 12th August 2009

Alice Mahoney’s work reflects her memories and ideas about folklore and traditions stemming from her childhood.Childhood memory, which is often very much mixed with elements of our imagination, creates an unusual and individual form of personal fiction or fairytale. Through her fascination in our inherent urge to romanticize certain events, places and stories from our childhood, Alice brings these memories into a tangible form often reflecting a fascination in the darker and unexplained side of stories and folklore, giving the sense of the strangely familiar and exciting yet also foreboding.

22nd July - 14th August 2009

“Tantalum Memorial” is a series of telephony based memorials to the people who have died in the “Coltan Wars”. The installation is constructed out of electromagnetic Strowger switches – the basis of the first automatic telephone exchange invented in 1888. The title of the work refers to the metal tantalum, an essential component of mobile phones. The movements and sounds of the switches are triggered by the phone calls of London's Congolese community as they participate in “Telephone Trottoire” – a concurrent project also built by the artists in collaboration with the Congolese radio program “Nostalgie Ya Mboka”.