Lily of Blythenhale by Andro Semeiko Review
There is a new exhibition, Lily of Blythenhale, that has been going on at the Acme Project Space for about three weeks now and will be continuing until December 11, 20011. It is an exhibition that gives way to the medieval Bethnal Green at a time when forest and swamp ruled the area and it was known as Blythenhale. The work is certainly something to look at and it surely brings the viewer back in time.
The work is by Andro Semeiko the Jessica Wilkes Award holder and it relates tales about Princess Lily who stumbles upon a dragon’s tooth whilst in the forest. Semeiko also introduces viewers to a noble knight named Simon de Montfort, who is believed to be the forefather of parliamentary democracy and who has inherited the forest and decides to create a secret society he calls Lily of Blythenhale. The tale also reveals a brush factory’s history that it stood in the very location where the present gallery now sits.
The Lily of Blythenhale gives viewers a particularly humorous way of looking at and going through the past as a way of analysing the present. It provides us with a space where we can begin to explore what our attitudes are towards the whole concept of power and knowledge and by doing so, satirises our outdated beliefs in accomplishing progress.
Much of the exhibition is designed and made up in the form of a multilayered visual story that is told through sculpture, drawing, archival material that serve as props to accent the depicted scène, and paintings. They show a time so long ago when the need for red diesel suppliers was non-existent. Every object that is a part of the exhibition may seem to be somewhat detached from it but they all come together to tell a story.
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