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Following six months as artist in residence, Edward Thomasson presents his work at South London Gallery

LONDON.- British artist Edward Thomasson presents an exhibition of new works in the South London Gallery’s first floor galleries following six months as the inaugural Nina Stewart Artist in Residence in the SLG’s Outset Artists’ Flat. The Residency is offered to a recent post-graduate from a UK art institution and is organised in partnership with SPACE. The centrepiece of Thomasson’s show is a new video work, entitled Inside, accompanied by a series of drawings depicting scenes from workshops organised as part of the filmmaking process. The narrative brings together three scenarios which reflect ideas around the relationship between interior and exterior spaces, and the consequences of breaking through boundaries between the two. Making references to the mind, body and buildings, Thomasson’s video is an extraordinary yet strangely plausible concoction of disparate