Isaac Julien, The Long Road to Mazatlan (detail), 2000, 20 minutes, colour/sepia, 16mm to video, triple-screen rear projection

EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND.- The Fruitmarket Gallery’s major spring exhibition is a group show which presents a selection of northern European sculpture, photography, installation and film in the context of the western and its role in the creation of the myth of the American West. The exhibition will be on view 1 March – 4 May 2008. Curated by art historian, lecturer, writer and the editor of Art Monthly Patricia Bickers, the exhibition has its origins in her long-standing fascination for westerns takes its title from the final scene of the film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: ‘Sir, this is the West. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend’. Arguing that the western is a key component in the construction of the myth of the American West, and that this myth is as politically and culturally relevant now as it has ever been, Bickers uses the western as a lens through which to look at work by Adam Chodzko, Peter Granser, Douglas Gordon, Isaac Julien, Mike Nelson, Cornelia Parker, Simon Patterson, Salla Tykkä and Gillian Wearing.

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Salla Tykkä, Lasso, 2000, Colour film with sound, 3 mins 48 secs, edition of 7. Courtesy of the artist and Yvon Lambert Paris, New York