EDINBURGH'S annual visual arts festival is to take over an entire public gallery for the first time this year with a major show of art from 20 Commonwealth artists.
The Edinburgh Art Festival, which runs from July 31 to August 31, will include the show entitled Where Do I End and You Begin at the City Art Centre.
The exhibition will be curated by experts from five Commonwealth countries: New Zealand, South Africa, India, Canada and the UK, to explore themes of "common-wealth".
It takes its title from the work of the artist Shilpa Gupta from India.
Other artists will include Indian artist Amar Kanwar, an installation by Mary Evans, who was born in Nigeria, a video installation by New Zealand artist Steve Carr, work by the Johannesburg-based artist Mary Sibande, and Canadian artists Brian Jungen and Duane Linklat.
Sorcha Carey, director of the festival, said: "I think the size of the show is part of the natural evolution of the festival that we have been making for the last three or four years.
"Four floors at the City Arts Centre is new for us and we will not necessarily do it again: it is all about what Commonwealth means in the 21st century, both with a large C and a small."
She added: "Festivals are fundamentally about the gathering of people, locally and internationally.
"Even without the other extraordinary events which will take place in Scotland in 2014, the particular phenomenon which is Edinburgh in August provides a context in which to reflect on the central questions posed by this exhibition - how can we be in common, or as artist Shilpa Gupta puts it, where do I end and you begin?"
This year the festival features a calendar of more than 40 exhibitions alongside events, performances and tours across 30 of the city's museums and institutions, as well as artist-run, and 'pop-up' spaces.
In its 11th year, the festival will bring together more than 100 leading and emerging Scottish and international artists.
The show includes Katie Paterson and Mick Peter at Jupiter Artland and Dalziel + Scullion at Dovecot Studios.
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