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Silvia Battista /Queering The Rosary I
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Patric Rogers / Mask
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Exhibition
Bridewell Studios: Here to Become
7 Jul 2023 – 14 Jul 2023
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- Bridewell Studios
- Prescot Street
- Liverpool
- L7 8UL
- United Kingdom
In our first major show as a new co-operative, artists of the Material Matters collective will occupy the Bridewell's two galleries with a major new show for summer 2023.
About
Material Matters presents Here To Become an exhibition and series of events at the historic Bridewell Gallery, Liverpool, UK from 7- 14th July.
Visitors are invited to embrace the alchemical qualities of the material and the symbolic: weaved together into mythopoetics that are paradoxically both stable and mutable, human and more-than-human.
Angelo Madonna further explores his work on body-duality, his created forms presenting a kind of living alter-ego of the self: fragile works, that play with elemental forces of fire, water and air.
Also literally taking inspiration ('re-spirare' It.- departing, going, to breathe the last breath) from these forces, Silvia Battista invokes ritual practice to imagine a mythological, speculative fiction: centred on a series of works which powerfully and beautifully present an alternative semiotics.
Patric Rogers presents a startling geological examination of human identity, deconstructing the figure in 3D to argue for a re-appreciation of the contribution that landscape itself has on both our physical and spiritual manifestation.
John Elcock connects with and unifies our collective's work with a kinetic sculpture whose enigmatic form, at giant scale, seeks to weigh human souls in a chilling metaphor for nuclear annihilation.
The show seeks to create a shared connection to processes, questions and uncertainty, rather than proposing a didactic of end-results and answers. Our artists look at change as a condition of life - as an infinite process of becoming, and we challenge the imposed addiction towards the new that neoliberal ontologies have impressed on our consciousness.
'Here to Become' is an Independents Biennial event responding to the theme of the 2023 Liverpool Biennial ‘uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things’ whose theme addresses the history and temperament of our city and its call for ancestral forms of knowledge, wisdom and healing.
The exhibition will be accompanied by artists' talks and a discussion.
Please check online listings social media and our website for updates.
