cell project space : Domesto City

The smell of bleach! It definitely subdues. It knocks out all senses. Boring and mundane, this intoxicating killer stands innocently on the kitchen shelf. Focusing on the hidden, the contradictions and the often twisted and screwed up world of the private place, the artists in this show explore a love, fear and acute observation of the places they inhabit and for some, theirs may appear to be a twisted domesticity.

'Domesto . city' seeks to bring five individual and unconnected London-based artists each working in disparate and opposing disciplines and who represent a conflicting range of socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. This presentation of new works is based on the nature and contradictions of domesticity in contemporary society and all that it may entail. Theirs is a critical observation of the often not quite so simple act of day-to-day living where one person's domestic idyll maybe another's personal hell. Each artist in the show seeks individual ways to explore their own interiority.

Franko B, an Italian born artist living in London, has built up an international reputation for his performance works. In the last year he has concentrated solely on object based works. After recently exhibiting in his solo show at Tate Liverpool, 'Domesto . city' will present the first exhibition of his new sculptural works in London. To be later followed by a solo exhibition at The South London Gallery in November.

Keith Coventry was a founder member of 'City Racing' in South London and could be viewed as one of the first generation of 'YBA's to emerge out of London in the late 1980's. He has an international reputation and was included in Charles Saatchi's seminal 'Sensation' Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London in 2001. He will exhibit major new works for the exhibition based on Giorgio Morandi's still life's.

Lee Maelzer, a graduate from the RCA in Painting over a decade ago, is a Canadian artist based in London whose work is just beginning to emerge and who is about to undertake a Rome Scholarship in October 2004. Her paintings deal with quiet reflections on isolation and fragmentation within communities. From a series of landscapes; dark menacing paintings of trailer parks and dimly lit interiors in Canada to interiors of alternative dwellings and habitation in London. Her work has a maturity, and a painterliness evocative of Vuillard but with a quality and relevancy of contemporary living, which comes from her experience of a hand to mouth existence in London over the years. Her new work embodies all of these aspects.

Daniel Jackson is one of the foremost artists working with computer technology in Britain today. He has worked variously for the interactive departments for the BBC and developed the technology used by artists such as Michael Craig Martin, Stephan Gec and Julian Opie for their digital work. Having exhibited in The Jerwood Space, London and BuroFriedrich, Berlin he has more recently developed work for a show at the Freud Museum earlier this year in London using artificial intelligence to create a kinetic work which generates its own, but random movement and thought patterns. This is a continuation of Jackson's concerns with the themes and ideas, which are associated with computer technology and its effect on human intelligence and behaviour.

Jamie Robinson will produce a series of photographs, which explore the nature of relationships and cross continental cultural interconnectivity. The photographs are born out of a long-term development and continued observation to explore the intimacy and conflicts, which are part of modern relationships; an extension of his publication 'Aishiteru I Love You', 2002. Robinson also writes and is a freelance photographic journalist for Blueprint magazine, Icon magazine, Contemporary magazine, and The Independent.