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And We Shall Teach The Gods Their Places
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Marrow
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A Mythology in Five Parts - Part Two
Exhibition
I'll Make My Own Damn Deities
5 Nov 2021 – 6 Nov 2021
Regular hours
- Fri, 05 Nov
- 18:00 – 20:00
- Sat, 06 Nov
- 12:00 – 17:00
Address
- 16 Minerva Works
- 158 Fazeley Street
- Birmingham
West Midlands - B5 5RS
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 4, 5, 6, 37, 37A, 27Y, 41 649, 560, 66Y 57, 57Y, 58, 58A, 60, X66
- New Street, Moor Street
This exhibition is an examination of faith, death and reverence from an atheistic perspective. Venerating the downtrodden and dismissed, and those determined enough to challenge the gods themselves.
About
This experimental new body of work from was born as a response to a unique human bone. Once a University medical exhibit, the anonymous tibia from the gallows or the workhouse is here lionised in the manner of Medieval Saints. I’ll Make My Own Damn Deities ruminates on class, sanctification and the myth of Marsyas, particularly his role as an agitant in ancient Roman culture.
The work focuses on two types of human derived relic – bones and hair. Both now are seen as abject objects, taboo and potentially dangerous. However, historically bones have been the presentable remains of those we love and hair was woven into elaborate displays celebrating the lives in a family.
Why do we keep relics of the beatified and those we love?
Works:
I’ll Make My Own Damn Deities
Marrow
Mythology in Five Parts
Here’s One We Made Earlier
And We Shall Teach The Gods Their Places
