Exhibition
Frieze Week 2019
02 Oct 2019 – 06 Oct 2019
Frieze Week 2019
London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery
30 May 2019 – 26 Jan 2020
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- 183 Euston Road
- London
- NW1 2BE
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 10, 18, 24, 27, 29, 30, 59, 68, 73, 88, 91, 134, 168, 205, 253, 390
- Tube: Euston, Euston Square, Warren St, King's Cross
- Train: Euston, St Pancras and King's Cross
Event map
This free exhibition brings together two artists who explore the representation of chronic illness and reclaim the idea of ‘misbehaving bodies’.
About
Influential photographer Jo Spence’s (1934–92) work documents her diagnosis of breast cancer and subsequent healthcare regime throughout the 1980s. Her raw and confrontational photography is shown alongside Oreet Ashery’s (b. 1966) award-winning miniseries ‘Revisiting Genesis’, 2016. Ashery's politically-engaged work explores loss and the lived experience of chronic illness in the digital era. In October 2019, a new commission by Ashery exploring the recent death of her father will be added.
In this exhibition, challenge your understanding of ‘misbehaving’ or ‘untypical’ bodies, and reflect on how illness can disrupt and shape the way you think about the body, family and identity.
