Event
Empathy Workshop
12 Jun 2021
Bow Arts Trust
London, United Kingdom
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Late Opening
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Late Opening
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Late Opening
Exhibition
Late Opening - 'Is there space for empathy?'
1 Jul 2021
Regular hours
- Thu, 01 Jul
- 16:00 – 20:00
Address
- 183 Bow Road
- London
United Kingdom - E3 2SJ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bow Church (DLR), Bow Road (District Line)
Event map
An after-hours chance to explore Tuomala’s new experience of empathy. Tuomala invites you into a multi-sensory experience of empathy, exploring what visibly – and invisibly – lies in the distances between us.
About
Weighing around 55kg and made of 100 metres of hand-sewn wire mesh, Tuomala’s new sculptural installation is suspended mid-air, inviting visitors to sit or lie inside, contemplating the questions she poses to us throughout the show: Is there Space for Empathy? Can we re-learn to be physically close? What lives in the invisible spaces between us? What will it take to make us feel safe with each other again? The Nunnery Café will also be open late offering a special evening cocktail menu.
This event is part of Is there space for empathy? – an exhibition by Finnish artist Enni-Kukka Tuomala, which examines what empathy means in 2021, in a post-Brexit, post-Covid, post-colonial Britain. Tuomala looks at what role empathy can play in helping us re-enter public life and re-discover physical closeness with each other once again. Her installation makes empathy – an often abstract and intangible feeling – into a physical and tangible form we can see, feel and enter.
This is a free, drop in event - no need to book tickets.
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