Exhibition
Joan Jonas: Fawn Grove
9 Sep 2021 – 13 Nov 2021
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- Closed
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Address
- 1st Floor, 18 Brewer Street
- London
England - W1F 0SH
- United Kingdom
This exhibition was inspired by a short text by Joan Jonas, 'Fawn Grove', originally published in an issue of the magazine Art-Rite in 1974.
About
The text recounts a walk that Jonas took through the countryside with her dog Sappho. The content, structure and rhythm of the text reflect numerous elements that have recurred in Jonas’s work over a long career: the notion of a journey, circular movement, mirroring, our relationship to animals and nature and the artist’s abiding interest in poetry and literature.
The exhibition includes a recent video work Beautiful Dog, 2014, and drawings from both Jonas’s studio practice and from her performances, culminating in her most recent performance Moving off the Land, commissioned by TBA21-Academy and performed at Ocean Space, Venice, 2018 and Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2019.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication with contributions from Éric Alliez, Daisy Lafarge and Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith.
