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Ella Walker, Bathing Melusine, 2021
Exhibition
Bathing nervous limbs
29 Jul 2021 – 29 Aug 2021
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Sunday
- 13:00 – 17:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Address
- 13A Dundas Street
- Edinburgh
- EH3 6QG
- United Kingdom
The route (of the water) is taken through a hidden world
To help with ailing skin
And the ancients say that it is miraculous (enough) to speak of
Outside the cave where the water bubbles
– Balneum, 1413
About
Guided by the Balneum Book, a 15th Century illustrated Western manuscript outlining the folkloric healing legends of various freshwater bodies, Arusha Gallery and Ella Walker present Bathing Nervous Limbs, a group exhibition bringing together new and existing work by 19 international artists.
By treating this book as a teacher and healer, who proposes a set of instructions to be followed and repeated until the desired outcomes are achieved, discussions arise around learning, care, methods of doing and transformations.
Looking at the image of the body and existing within its parameters, the great longevity of the doing, the walking, the drawing, the making, the bathing – or lack thereof. Bathing nervous limbs wonders if the end result of all of these actions is in its process, and as such is reconstruction the most accessible, unifying and creative action despite its many guises?
