Exhibition
'There's no way I can know it, the object, or the body' by Sophie Seita and Claire Zakiewicz
04 Feb 2022 – 26 Feb 2022
HOXTON 253 art project space
London, United Kingdom
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Sophie Seita, photo by Christa Holka
Talk
Artists in conversation & performance by Sophie Seita
26 Feb 2022
Address
- 253 Hoxton Street
- London
England - N1 5LG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 243, 242, 67, 394
- Hoxton Overground / Old Street Underground
Event map
Sophie Seita will present a lecture performance, Reading the Rock, in response to her sound installation My Contact Aureoles (2020/2022). The performance will be followed by an artist talk.
About
Doors open at 5pm
Performance starts at 5.15pm
About the performance:Sophie Seita’s lecture performance Reading the Rock bends into and around different body-and rock-formations—quite literally through the metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rock that can be found in the Big Bend State Park that runs along the Rio Grande that divides West Texas and Mexico, which is also the setting for Seita’s installation My Contact Aureoles. Other stepping-stones or touchstones are Valie Export’s Körperkonfigurationen (Body Configurations), John Ruskin’s Stones of Venice; Laura Aguilar’s self-portrait Grounded #114 (2006), Dana Luciano and Mel Chen’s ‘Queer Inhumanisms’; Yoko Ono’s Stone Piece, William Empson’s Versions of Pastoral; and other materials and voices that tease out the complex from the simple and vice versa, all pivoting around some questions that animate her work in the show: How can a work hold a moment, translate it, make it tangible and yet remain ultimately unknowable? Or more simply: How can I experience this enough?
Event is free, pre-booking is essential as spaces are limited. RSVP: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-date-artists-in-conversation-performance-tickets-272751295467
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There's no way I can know it, the object, or the body exhibition explores the expressive possibilities of writing, drawing, and of writing-bodies, where expression or knowledge is always tied to a question of materiality. The works dissect forms of address, the possibilities for moving and being moved, through writing, painting, video installations, and performance. How can a work hold a moment, make it tangible, knowable?
Embedded in both ephemerality and abstraction, the exhibition also addresses ideas around immediacy and energy, time and motion, light and space, what’s observable and what’s imagined, what can be grasped and what remains projection.
There's no way I can know it, the object, or the body / A duo exhibition by Sophie Seita and Claire Zakiewicz
4-26 February 2022
Further information and full exhibition programme: www.hoxton253.com/theres-no-way-i-can-know-it
The exhibition and associated programme are supported by and part of HELLO AGAIN, HACKNEY, the borough's cultural reopening initiative.
