Were is a new durational performance/installation by one of Britain’s leading performance artists. Were alludes to the past, that which has gone, and also to the potential of a person or entity to be transformed under certain conditions, as in the myths of Werewolves. In Were Catling will ‘inhabit’ one of the gallery’s spaces for a period of nine days, dusk to midnight. For these five darkening hours the public can witness his world and its changing moods. In this cell-like space he will continually engage in a series of actions and atmospheres; breaking and constructing things, painting and playing instruments. The space will also be inhabited by one or more of Catling’s ‘colleagues’, dummies assembled out of junk, clothes and even vegetables who share and converse with his particular world. Were is richly symbolic work which embraces influences from the mythical to the carnivalesque and fuses them into a distinctly individual and often disturbing form.