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Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley , This Is Offal 2016. Courtesy of the artists and Pilar Corrias Gallery, London.
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Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley, Harry S. Truman 2017. Courtesy of the artists and Pilar Corrias, London
Exhibition
Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley: We Are Ghosts
17 Nov 2017 – 18 Mar 2018
Address
- Albert Dock
- Liverpool
- L3 4BB
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Liverpool ONE Bus Station on Canning Street is directly opposite the Albert Dock, approximately 365 metres from Tate Liverpool. Route C4 also stops at the Albert Dock.
- The nearest train station to Tate Liverpool is James Street station, Liverpool L27PQ (720 metres approx.). For travel within Merseyside plan your journey at merseyrail.org.
Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley present their new commission which re-imagines life on a US Navy Submarine at the end of the Second World War.
About
Known for their stylised black-and-white videos this exhibition will be Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley’s first museum solo exhibition in the UK. The display will feature their new work In The Body of The Sturgeon, as well as the 2016 work, This Is Offal alongside life-size lightbox portraits of the videos’ characters.
Mary Reid Kelley and Patrick Kelley work in collaboration to create video works that combine painting, performance and poetry to tell surreal stories inspired by history and mythology. Played by the artists acting multiple roles, their characters speak in poetic verse filled with wordplay and puns to tell stories that imagine unrecorded histories.
The new commission In The Body of The Sturgeon envisions a peculiar time and space: an American submarine at the very end of the Second World War. Sailors on the (fictional) USSSturgeon grapple with claustrophobic boredom and entertain each other with ad-hoc burlesque performances.
