Motion in Stillness. Dance and the Human Body in Movement

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The challenge to preserve movement, even latent movement, in immobile form has preoccupied and beguiled artists over centuries. All of the artists presented in this exhibition have a relationship with dance or, more broadly speaking, with the human body in movement, and a number of artists, including Kylie Manning, France-Lise McGurn and Florence Peake, have created new works for this context.

Dance is an art form in which the human body is the material, and the desire to embed the physical body into the artwork itself is a hallmark of many of the works in this exhibition. Megan Rooney wants us to feel the energy and experience of movement as much as she invites us to see it, so that brushwork becomes a kind of choreography. For a painter like Florence Peake, performance and the use of one’s own body are intrinsic to the process; Peake’s painting begins by her making an imprint of her body on paper, drawing around it as she moves.

Artists in this exhibition: María Berrío, Karon Davis, Rachel Kneebone, Kylie Manning, France-Lise McGurn, Florence Peake, Paula Rego, Megan Rooney, Xiyao Wang