Event
ARTIST TALK + Q&A Making Space: MRS ROE
12 Oct 2023
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
£3.50
Address
- 40 Duke Street
- Brighton
- BN1 1AG
- United Kingdom
Join Making Space Artist in Residence Kerry Lemon for a talk about her ongoing project: MRS ROE. Followed by a Q&A with Liz Whitehead.
About
Kerry Lemon is undertaking a Making Space residency at Fabrica 9-13 October 2023
Kerry is using the opportunity to develop a new piece, MRS ROE, in the gallery. This work is Kerry’s response to the recent Roe v Wade overturn in the USA.
Conceived as a multi-screen video installation and performance MRS ROE explores the social and political history of birth control and abortion, in particular the shift in women’s agency in decision making in different parts of the world. And how this shift sits alongside an erosion of common and specifically female knowledge of abortive native herbs.
MRS ROE is Kerry’s response to the recent Roe v Wade overturn in the USA. She describes the work as “a violent reaction to the historical criminalisation of abortion that explores female dislocation from nature via the lost eco-cultural heritage of abortive native herbs”.
At Fabrica, Kerry will be working on the layout of the installation which comprises film, photographic and made objects, and how performative elements can function within it. And she will be developing the narrative around her piece through a discussion with herbalists and feminist historians.
Kerry is best known for her monumental sculptures which seek to connect audiences to the natural world. Her studio practice focuses on the commonality between womxn and plants and she uses the term ‘womxn’ with a 'X' is inclusive of trans and nonbinary women.
At this conversation event there will be the chance to hear more about the project, and experience the artwork in situ at Fabrica.
