Event
Glasgow International 2018
20 Apr 2018 – 07 May 2018
Trongate 103
Glasgow, United Kingdom
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Kapwani Kiwanga, Afrogalactica (2016). Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Jerome Poggi
Exhibition
Kapwani Kiwanga: Soft Measures
20 Apr 2018 – 17 Jun 2018
Regular hours
- Friday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 17:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 17:00
Address
- 25 Albert Drive
- Glasgow
- G41 2PE
- United Kingdom
Event map
The continent of Europe is moving towards Africa at the rate of approximately 2cm per year – eventually it will slide underneath entirely. Paris-based Canadian artist Kapwani Kiwanga takes this fact as a starting point for a new multi-faceted installation at Tramway.
About
Through new sculptural works Kiwanga suggests speculative fictions that stretch through a perspective of deep geological time.
The placement of curtains will suggest the meeting of tectonic planes, whilst additional elements incorporating rocks and matter will further probe the thematic currents underlying the work. Kiwanga has conceived the exhibition as a narrative ordered in three acts occupying the space. In this way the artworks become protagonists that operate as tectonic plates, independent but moving along one another – pushing closer or pulling away.
The exhibition will be accompanied by discussions and events devised in collaboration with the artist, offering opportunities for visitors to further expand on the themes it raises.
