2012

2012 consists of twelve artists, twelve works and twelve exhibitions.

In each month of 2012 an artist will be invited to present one work that will be exhibited 

at The Mews Project Space, London. Through showing twelve works individually during 

a year, the project will take the form of a group exhibition that slowly metamorphoses over 

time. The works will be juxtaposed in the audience’s memory, creating an accumulative 

group exhibition. 

Simultaneously each installment also represents a one-work exhibition and an insistence on
an encounter with an individual artwork. In our age of chronic information overload, which 
manifests itself in the art world through biennials, large-scale museum exhibitions and art fairs, 
the need to pause and consider an individual artwork in greater depth is a timely proposition.

The beginning of 2012 represents the initiation of a thought process rather than a result of one, 

with decisions being made as and when they are needed. 2012 is an artwork-centered project 

that has no predetermined theme and participating artists will be confirmed as the year unfolds. 

The project is in part a response to curating becoming an increasingly discursive discipline in 

which greater emphasis is placed on themes rather than artworks. 2012 adheres to the principle 

of making an exhibition to discover what it might be about and celebrates intuition through 

structures that will evolve over time.      

2012 February:

David Ben White

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2012 is a project curated by Lindsay Jarvis