Simon Senn: Fawcett Street

The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (NGCA) is pleased to present a new body of work by the Swiss artist Simon Senn. ‘Fawcett Street’, Senn’s first solo exhibition in the UK, is named after the street that the NGCA is situated on. Historically Sunderland’s financial centre, Fawcett Street now finds itself commercially marginalised by a nearby shopping mall. Since the Second World War, the decline of the manufacturing industries and the rise of consumerism have put Fawcett Street at the edge of the city – with its grand Victorian and Edwardian department stores and banks under-occupied or unoccupied, the street has been left somewhat overlooked.

For this new project Senn, along with an assistant, walked around Fawcett Street during the day asking people if they wanted to participate in a performance at the NGCA for a small fee. Read more.

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