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Faith Wilding, Book of Hildegarde, 1983.
Exhibition
Alembic I: Mystic Body
27 Jan 2018 – 10 Mar 2018
Cost of entry
Free
Address
- Enclave
- 50 Resolution Way
- London
London - SE8 4AL
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 177, 453, 53
- New Cross
- Deptford
Mystic Body, the first exhibition in the Alembic programme at Res., includes historical artist books, scrolls, drawings and textile work by Faith Wilding from 1969 to 1992 alongside a new commission by Orlando based artist and herbalist Elizabeth Mputu.
About
Wilding’s 'Body and Soul' (1992), a sculptural time-based work with coloured pigment bleeding between two alchemical vessels, provided a guiding emblematic system of transference and transmutation during the development of the Alembic programme. A selection of book and scroll works on show in Alembic includes dense allegorical imagery of hybrid organic matter alongside diaristic passages inspired by theological lineages as well as more recent feminist literature. The tousled woven tentacles of ‘Sea Womb’(1969) evokes Haraways recent writing concerning ‘making kin’ with the planet’s non-human inhabitants.
Mputu’s practice articulates a mutual dependence between holistic epistemologies, POC communities and online social networks. For Alembic, Mputu takes the healing Congolese dance ritual of Zebola alongside traditional herbal remedies to develop a holistic gameplay environment accessed online and via a sculptural living ‘hotspot’ herbal planter in the gallery.
