Pervilion is an exhibition project by Dorothy Feaver.
It has encouraged encounters in the Harvey Centre, Harlow; a karaoke pub on Walthamstow Market; the defunct boiler rooms of a brewer’s ex-headquarters in Canning Town; Welbeck Street Car Park, a midcentury landmark about to be demolished; Oasis Farm Waterloo, an experimental city farm; and vitrines in Palermo’s artisanal district.
Artists include Clementine Keith-Roach, Edizioni Precarie, Sasha Pirogova, James Knight & Michael Knight, Graham Sayle, Jack O’Brien, Katharina Dubbick, Monika Blaszczak & Mateo Dupleich Rozo, Stella Scott, Alice Dunseath, Jacob Samuel, Oliver Smith, Simon Whybray, Lucy Sparks, Kimberley Cookey-Gam and Samuel Padfield.
“Artists have to be calculating,” says Feaver, Pervilion’s producer and creator. “I wanted to create a space to try things out, to experiment with process.” But, though the current climate for young artists might be pressurised, it’s often under such circumstances that the most resourceful solutions are found. “Pervilion, with its kink in the spelling, helps things grow in the cracks... The approach is like rewilding, it moves from one free location to the next,” Feaver finishes with. “It is ‘agile’ through necessity, at the same time, there is delight in the sense of discovery that comes with showing in unusual places.”
