Iniva presents the first London exhibition of Zineb Sedira's recently commissioned video work Floating Coffins at Rivington Place. Floating Coffins was filmed on the little known but beautiful coastline of Mauritania, a bird watcher's paradise. It is also where the world's shipping is beached and broken up, drawing parallels with another of the region's characteristics - the harbour city of Nouadhibou, which has become a point of departure for African migrants trying to reach Europe.�'This unique phenomenon on the Saharan shores represents both a hazard to shipping and an ecological threat. Also the sea becomes a space of 'decline' and an inactive landscape where lifeless ships and human bodies can be found rejected by the sea.' Zineb Sedira - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
 

In the Dark is the first solo show of work by artist Nina Murdoch since she won the Threadneedle Prize, the UK�s largest art prize in September last year. 2,700 works by 1,600 artists were submitted for the Threadneedle prize in 2008. 71 works were selected for the finalists� exhibition at the Mall Galleries by a panel of jurors who included art critics Richard Cork, Brian Sewell and William Packer and contemporary art dealer Angela Flowers. Nina Murdoch�s large-scale study of a city wall, Untitled, won the �25,000 award after a televised debate and extensive popular vote. This work along with a new series of paintings will be on show at FAS this Spring. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
 

The Claremont Museum of Art is pleased to present Ten Pound Ape: Your Mother was Beautiful Once, part vier from Wednesday, May 20 through Sunday, September 27, 2009. Founded in 2004 in Guanajuato, Mexico, Ten Pound Ape is an international art collective that engages in public intervention projects, which question the nature of civic sculpture, co-opt the verbiage of non-commercial street advertisements, and expand the boundaries of community. For this exhibition, Ten Pound Ape presents the fourth part of a series where the group builds a site-specific performance sculpture from collected urban debris and ephemera. This project fits the Museum�s objective of encouraging and supporting direct public engagement in its programming. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com
 

The 3D Project Room Installation is a collaboration with the artist and designer Emre Erturk, who will be doing a performance with Gulay Alpay during the opening Reception. For love and peace! In 3D Project Room Installation Alpay creates an innovative world within a world. Each of these �worlds� are in the creating with a variety of mediums by Alpay and the several other collaborating artists and non-artist friends and guests during the show. Turkish artist Gulay Alpay has developed a reputation for poetic epic works that display both delicacy and fragility, revealing a deep respect for something fundamental, some primal, indigenous sense of shape and color, yet she creates with bursts of contemporary idioms. Her paintings are playful, spirited, freeform and deceptively complex. There�s not a single corner, hard edged, geometric line to be found in her composition, instead the shapes are as fluid as the submerged sounds that fuel her imagination. Gulay Alpay has promoted her work with a Portfolio at absolutearts.com since 2007. - Read Indepth Article at http://www.absolutearts.com