April– June 15th
Opening date to be confirmed due to major gallery building works as part of CELF: The National Contemporary Art Gallery for Wales
Liar Liar uses hidden techniques of filmmaking – props, filters, light and sound. On one level the exhibition is about illusion and disguise; on another it draws on Shapland’s life-experience of rural queerness, growing up performing straight. It gave him the sense that if he was passing and blending-in then the landscape around him was just as malleable and fluid, constantly evolving, always temporary – a story.
Liar Liar also launches a new Welsh text, Lan Stâr made in dialogue with poet and artist Esyllt Lewis in response to Shapland’s first novel A Room Above a Shop, published by Granta.
Production Shot, A Sound Not Meant to be Heard [Broadcast] 2018. Photo: David Cushway.
