27 May - 2 July 2006
Former Post Office Building
Birley Street, Preston
Open 11am - 4 pm daily. Closed bank holidays.
Admission free.
Access: Entrance is through the two main doors on Birley Street. The installation is accessible for wheelchairs and pushchairs.

Kuba has English subtitles. Excerpts from the testimonials of all forty Kuba residents are available as large print text. Please ask a member of staff.

Refreshments are available at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery cafe.

For further information please visit the Harris Museum and Art Gallery website: www.harrismuseum.org.uk

Küba is commissioned by

Kutlug Ataman's Küba arrives at Preston's former Post Office

From 27 May - 2 July 2006 forty domestic television sets showing remarkable life stories of inhabitants of Küba, a community in Istanbul, Turkey, are on show to the public in the former Post Office building in Preston. The contemporary film installation is just the start of an exciting two part project that the internationally renowned Turkish artist Kutlug Ataman is involved in with the Harris Museum and Art Gallery. His work has been seen all over the world and the Harris are thrilled to be showing his work in Preston.

Küba is shown in the former Preston post office to parallel the shifting nature of the community. This building, nearly 100 years old, has its own history. Millions of people, letters and parcels have passed through there, each with their own stories. The Post Office has now relocated to new modern premises and today the future of this building is uncertain.

Küba is the first of a two part artwork. The Harris Museum and Art Gallery are delighted to be co-commissioning the sequel Paradise with Yerba Buena, San Francisco; SITE, Santa Fe; Smithsonian Institute, Washington; BAK, Utrecht. Paradise will explore the lives of a small privileged community in Northern California, USA. It will be shown in the top floor galleries at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston in Spring 2008.

If you would like to receive further information about this work in 2008, or indeed are interested in sponsorship opportunities please contact the Harris Museum on 01772 258248 or harris.museum@preston.gov.uk.