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Public Gallery commissioned artist Esther Shalev-Gerz to create a new piece of art for Sandwell. In Les Portraits des Histoires, Sandwell 2008, showing in the Lower Gallery, participants answered the question: What is the story that must be told today? By re-presenting the previous projects from France and Sweden in the Upper Gallery we are pleased to present an exhibition that addresses local concerns and draws global comparisons.

Data Falls Like Water

Images on 30 projection screens and 8 LCD screens make up Datafall, created by Vienna based artists Lia and Porto based Miguel Carvalhais who worked with maths students at Perryfields School to reimagine numbers.

Data falls down the inside of the building that reflects the choices made by all the people that pass through the gallery. The water metaphor continues when the vertical fall becomes horizontal pools.

Kate Has Been Spotted

The final exhibit in our ramp sequence is Access @ The Public by French born, LA based artist, Marie Sester. From the lower levels of the ramp, you can select someone on the ground floor - a powerful beam of light follows them across the atrium.

Bus & Taxi Campaign

Look out for our new bus and taxi advertising campaign. The images are from one of our largest exhibits, Flypad.

Visitors choose heads and bodies to create an "avatar" or screen version of themselves. By stepping onto a rubber covered pad on the floor they can navigate their avatar as it flies over live images of the Public building, colliding with other players, swapping skins and limbs.Flypad has been created for Public Gallery by UK artist collective, Blast Theory. They worked with Class 5 at Cronehills Primary School in West Bromwich to imagine the personalities and qualities of the avatars.

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