Pippy Houldsworth Gallery
Zarouhie Abdalian - Bells for Baku, London, Louisiana

In a new body of work conceived especially for this exhibition, themes related to the conditions of modern industrial production continue to occupy the artist. Abdalian turns her attention to heavy industry, to the massive accumulation of labour that confronts the workers exploited by the owners of Shell, Cargill, General Electric and BP, amongst others. As the exhibition title suggests, Abdalian’s bells – a recurring image in her work – are meant to ring out across the distance that separates the oilfields of Baku from the Port of South Louisiana, now joined together through modern commodity production.