
Talk
Poetry Reading by Sejal Chad
23 Sep 2018
The Bomb Factory Archway
London, United Kingdom
The Bomb Factory Art Foundation presents A Portable Hole, a group exhibition including sculpture, video works and painting, and concerning holes, mazes, labyrinths and escape routes.
A Portable Hole is an exhibition of work by Rachel Ara, Laura Fitzgerald, Patrick Goddard, Katrin Hanusch and Tom Mason that use the labyrinth as a metaphor for the current political situation.
A Portable Hole relates these practical considerations to the notion of the labyrinth; a concept that has historically been understood as both a site of refuge and incarceration. In Greek mythology, the architect Daedalus built a labyrinth to imprison the Minotaur, a creature with the head of a bull and the body of a man. In Romanticism, however, the labyrinth was a symbol of a sanctuary, “a setting for creative acts, space ‘where time and the phenomenal world are placed in suspension.’” The exhibition considers both cultural uses equally, finding in the politically-perilous present, an ever-growing need for both shelter and escape.
The exhibition’s title refers to the fictional device made famous by the roadrunner and the coyote in the Looney Tunes cartoons. Resembling a circular cloth which is placed on a surface to create a hole, the ‘portable hole’ offers access through any surface it is placed upon. Particularly pertinent in relation to both labyrinths and times of austerity alike, the ‘portable hole’ is here framed as a pocket escape route, that provides its user with a getaway that would otherwise be impossible. It highlights the power of the imaginary, at a time when logic doesn’t seem to apply to a rapidly shifting socio-political landscape.
Talk
Poetry Reading by Sejal Chad
23 Sep 2018
The Bomb Factory Archway
London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
Bomb Factory Art Foundation Open Studios
05 Oct 2018
The Bomb Factory Archway
London, United Kingdom
Art Fair
Art Licks Weekend 2018: Peripheries
05 Oct 2018 – 07 Oct 2018
Various locations
London, United Kingdom
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