NOT NOT THE TURNER PRIZE
THE NUANCE OF "BOTH"

Solo exhibition by Gretchen Andrew

Fri., Sept. 27th, 5pm: VIP preview, 6-8pm: Opening ALL WELCOME
September 27 - October 5, 2019

The Cookhouse Gallery at Chelsea College of Arts, London
16 John Islip St, Westminster, London

Gretchen Andrew’s search engine take over of the Turner Prize Winners continues her practice of using internet manipulation to expose where technology failure, commonly talked about apocalyptically, can be positively and playfully used to recast the internet as a creative space. By recasting the world’s most famous art prize in the mode the highly popular Great British Bake Off Gretchen is able to use an inherent limitation of technology to confuse the internet into thinking that she has won the art world’s Turner Prize. Joining a long history of Turner Prize institutional critiques, Gretchen’s Turner Prize uses her unique process of internet imperialism to expose how false dilemmas, informal fallacies in which something is falsely claimed to be an “either/or” situation when in fact it could be both, dominate how both people and technology think about art, politics, nationalism, and age. This is a project about dealing with the nuance of “both.” Her practice is both figurative painting and conceptual art. A Turner is both another name for a cooking spatula and an international art prize. The celebration of nationalism both cultural as in the Turner Prize and The Great British Bake Off and a dark political force. Her infiltrations upend the power structures of the art world and large internet companies simultaneously while reminding us that we really don’t really know how any of this works, search engines, artificial intelligence, the art world, power in general.