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Artangel presents Come As You Really Are by Hetain Patel opens in Croydon this summer 

Friday 2 August 2024 //  by laura.gill

Group of people around a rug tufted vehicle with textiles hanging in the background
Come As You Really Are by Hetain Patel/Artangel at The Hobby Cave at Grants Croydon. Photography: Thierry Bal

Come As You Really Are is a major new commission by Artangel and award-winning artist Hetain Patel. The exhibition features thousands of objects created or collected by hobbyists across the UK shown alongside a new artist film. Each hobby represents a decision to commit valuable time to living life on our own terms in a society dominated by consumerism. 

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery is excited to be a part of a network of 13 partner organisations across the UK, collaborating to assemble a nationwide celebration of creativity and self-expression. 

Often rooted in personal experience and those of his immigrant family, Hetain Patel’s work invites us to see identity as multi-dimensional and complex, linked as much to what we choose to do, as that which is assigned by birth, heritage, social norms, and conventions.  

The project began with a nationwide call out inviting members of the public to share the activity to which they dedicate their spare time. Hobbies of all kinds are gathered to celebrate their variation, freedom of expression and ingenuity, and in doing so Patel challenges our perception of who gets to be called creative and where the impulse to create stems from. At the heart of this project is a nationwide community of people whose labours of love are a lens through which the artist presents an alternative portrait of the UK.  

The inaugural exhibition launches in London on 18 July 2024 at Grants, a former department store in Croydon. The nationwide project continues with presentations across the UK from February 2025 onwards.  

Come As You Really Are 

18 July – 20 October 2024 

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