The exhibition is based on Eddie's thought that 'there’s often a sort of quest for identity in my work – and that, I think, is the staggeringly beautiful thing about being an artist. You are afforded the luxury of creating a space for yourself as an individual in the world.'
The title 'Concrete Pitch' was inspired by the bare, concrete recreation ground in Finsbury Park in London where he grew up and decided that by treating the gallery as stage; a place to orchestrate dramas of the everyday and to present the rich assciative portrait of his childhood neighbourhood as a microsm of urban, multicultural society.
The large sound installation that runs throught the gallery is called 'Stoud Green road' and consists of steel tables placed in a snaking line. The small speakers emit a low, deep register wihch was composed by the artist using distorted samples and field recordings from the local area.
An airy white curtain hangs full-length from the ceiling, creating a natural spiralling passageway, in the centre of which a split-screen projection shows four dancers, each lockedin an individual, looping sequence of complex, choreographed movement. The notion of the loop, a key motif within Peake's work, is manifested in these repetitive movements, in the daily rituals the artist will be observing, in the sonic structure of th sound scuplture and in the music played by the Kool DJs; behaviours associated with compulsion, obsession and depression.
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