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Claudette Johnson, 'Untitled' (1982). Courtesy of the artist and Hollybush Gardens, London. Photo: Andy Keate
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Nicola Bealing, 'Dirty Man, Clean Man' (2014). Courtesy of the artist and Matts Gallery, London. Photo: Steve Tanner
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Flo Brooks, 'To Be or No To Be' (crop) (2020). Courtesy of the artist and Project Native Informant, London
Exhibition
Bodies in Space
27 Nov 2021 – 26 Feb 2022
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 09:00 – 13:00
- Monday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 09:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 09:00 – 16:30
Address
- Plymouth College of Art
- Tavistock Place
- Plymouth
England - PL4 8AT
- United Kingdom
MIRROR presents Bodies in Space, a group exhibition curated by Ben Borthwick.
About
Nicola Bealing / Flo Brooks / Andrea Büttner / Andrew Pierre Hart / Nick Jensen / Claudette Johnson / Joy Labinjo / Bruno Pacheco
Bodies in Space presents work by artists using the figure in painting and drawing to question and understand how we occupy, move through and negotiate the public and private spaces of daily life. The exhibition also reflects how figurative painting and drawing becomes more visible at times of wider social and political change.
This exhibition, itself hugely delayed due to the Covid 19 pandemic, has been adapted to reflect on the impact of social distancing and the wider disruption of social conventions on issues of representation and equality such as Black Lives Matter and debates around queer and trans rights.
Some artists in this show use the figure in allegorical ways while others treat the figure as an apparition emerging from abstraction. In spite of these differences in approaches, the disjunction between the body, space and time is a common thread across works and forms the basis of this exhibition.
