Exhibition

Calling the Body to attention

7 Dec 2022 – 11 Dec 2022

Regular hours

Wed, 07 Dec
10:00 – 18:00
Thu, 08 Dec
10:00 – 18:00
Fri, 09 Dec
10:00 – 18:00
Sat, 10 Dec
10:00 – 18:00
Sun, 11 Dec
10:00 – 18:00

Free admission

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Calling the Body to attention, Yewande YoYo Odunubi’s first solo exhibition is a gesture towards (re)centring and (re)claiming the body as an embodied site of archive, communication and imaginings.

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Calling the Body to attention, Yewande YoYo Odunubi’s first solo exhibition is a gesture towards (re)centring and (re)claiming the body as an embodied site of archive, communication and imaginings. Sitting on a moment of pause, it reflects on what might constitute a poetics of the body, and the role movement performs as a process and language for enlivening threads of inquiry.

Featuring moving image, sound and performance, as well as collaboration with music and sound artist Auclair and interdisciplinary poet Rohan Ayinde, the exhibition forms part of Yewande’s year-long Diasporic Curatorial Animateur Fellowship with ICF, during which she has been conducting research into our archive and exploring a series of questions that resonate with her practice. During this process, she has been concerned with what dreamings, imaginings, potentials and possibilities are opened up and actioned when the body – particularly the b/Black diasporic body – is understood beyond dualism, monolithic stereotypes, and a fixed idea of identity.

Starting from a place of attunement, Calling the Body to attention is an invitation to reflect on what it could mean for us to connect to an awareness of a full-bodied, expansive, and imaginative self that, in each moment, is weaving new ideas into space.

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Auclair

Rohan Ayinde

Yewande YoYo Odunubi

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International Curators Forum (ICF)

International Curators Forum (ICF)

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