Timed to coincide with the London Festival of Architecture 2010, ‘Outland’ is a curated show that presents works by contemporary artists that engage with notions of alternative colonies, shelter or creating environments and cultures from found, appropriated and manipulated materials. But, it does so from a particular angle.

As any survey of contemporary art tendencies in the past decade will show, architecture in its broadest sense has become highly visible within the work of many contemporary artists. In the hands of artists, architecture as a pivotal intersection for raising discussions and ideas about other topics – whether formal, ideological or social- has become one of the dominant concepts within contemporary art. From key locations for films and photography that explore the affective impact and ideological residues contained within actual buildings through to documentary-like works that explore the social impact of urban design; from installations and sculptures that offer up models or mimic construction techniques for formal reinterpretation to works that replicate architectural vernaculars only to disavow their usual functions, contemporary art is awash with visual languages that directly engage with the discipline commonly conceptualized as ‘architecture’.

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