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Ruth Beale, ‘Seed becomes tree becomes forest’, 2015
Exhibition
fig-2 19/50 Ruth Beale
11 May 2015 – 17 May 2015
Event times
Monday: 6 - 8pm
Tuesday - Sunday: 11am - 6pm
Thursday: 11am - 9pm
Cost of entry
Day membership to the ICA is £1 Tuesday - Sunday. There is no charge at the fig-2 Monday openings.
Day membership is free to annual ICA members, ICA ticket holders, and free with the National Art Pass.
Address
- ICA Studio, Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall
- London
- SW1Y 5AH
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Piccadilly Circus / Charing Cross
About
Ruth Beale will activate a space of encounter by transforming fig-2 into a temporary library composed of books borrowed from various London public libraries. In the week following the UK general election, her makeshift collection will concentrate on utopian and distopian novels that attempt to predict the future of societies based on anxieties about the recent past and present. By bringing the books together with her new sculptures and prints, Beale urges us to explore modalities of democracy, education and civil society, as well as positions of knowledge, particularly that of the ‘common’. Notions of participation and interaction are highlighted through a series of events scheduled in the week. Thursday evening will host Beale’s performative lecture (book here), while the Sundayevent (book here) will be of a speculative nature, using three different positions to address how we transform the real.
