The Exhibition Spaces

WW Gallery in London 

Apartment in Venice

Background to the Exhibition

Two worlds will literally collide in Travelling Light, an exhibition which promises to explode London's edgy East End onto the luminescent art stage when all eyes will be upon it: the opening week of the 53rd Venice Biennale Art Exhibition.

Travelling Light is an exciting collaborative project between and dynamic trio of female East End directors/curators, Sophie Wilson of Pharos Gallery, Chiara Williams and Debra Wilson of WW Gallery. Intending to stretch the imagination of their artists through imposing size and weight constraints, the brief demands that work arrives by post for the London exhibition before being transported to Venice for the Biennale. The dogma has encouraged lateral thinking and some interesting responses: artists used to working on a larger scale have had to change their usual practice and leave their comfort zone, often to surprising, silly and outright creative ends.

Travelling Light will open in London at WW Gallery from 15th - 28th of May. From there it will travel along the trade route to Venice, a path historically well trodden by merchants and hedonists attracted to the trade a pleasure capital of Europe. From 6th - 10th June it will be hung in a palazzo between the Academia Galleries and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. A bright new addition to the many 'Collateral Events' that have sprung forth from the expanding Biennale.

Travelling Light is more that just an art exhibition; it is a truly international event and is stirring considerable media interest.