Sin Centre, 2024, Hannah Barry Gallery, London
Joe Sweeney features in group exhibition Sin Centre at Hannah Barry Gallery London until 04 Septemebr 2024.
'Sin Centre is for pleasure, a place and programme made by artists, writers, designers and friends working together. It incorporates various specified entertainments (bar, library, etc.) as well as unprogrammed spaces for amusement. Everything in the Sin Centre has been made specially, to satisfy the unruly mind, forge connection, offer surprise and delight. You just come here, we do the rest.
Sin Centre takes its name from an unrealised project by English architect and founder of Archigram Group Michael Webb (conventionally, but misleadingly dated 1959-62) about which little has been written. Webb’s Sin Centre was planned for Leicester Square as his thesis project at Regent Street Polytechnic. It was to be a place of transcendence, of release from material things. Webb’s drawings, writing and thinking have been a continuous source of red hot inspiration for our Sin Centre. Michael Webb (b.1937) lives in Rhode Island.
Sin Centre is the fourth project of its kind organised by Hannah Barry Gallery, following Palazzo Peckham, Venice (2013), Peckham Hotel, London (2013)and Peckham Pavilion, Venice (2009).'
June 1, 2024
