Exhibition
Ebony G Patterson | Thomas J Price | Zadie Xa
31 Mar 2017 – 6 May 2017
Regular hours
- Friday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 18:00
Address
- The Tea Building, 7 Bethnal Green Road
- London
- E1 6LA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 8, 26, 48, 67, 149, 242
- Liverpool Street
Questions of cultural identity – feelings of belonging to a particular group – seem especially relevant in today’s troubled Western society, increasingly international and yet as riven as ever with conflict and fear of others.
About
How are our perceptions of identity formed; which stereotypes, fictions or representations have informed them? How do the categories of class, gender, race and nationality intersect and overlap to create one’s sense of self (and other)? For the three artists in this exhibition – Ebony G Patterson, Thomas J Price and Zadie Xa – visual and material forms of representation provide a potent strategy through which to pose these challenging and timely questions. Working in a diverse range of media, including sculpture, video, textiles and photography, these artists are united by their shared engagement with form, process and material. They each amalgamate different social and cultural references, fashions and art historical traditions to create new layered, hybrid mythologies that express the multi-faceted nature of identity in the 21st century. Through a simultaneous process of seduction and deconstruction, they powerfully challenge our conventional associations, assumptions and archetypes.