Our Teeth are Reefs

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Slugtown x Collective Ending are pleased to announce 'Our Teeth are Reefs' a group exhibition which is the first part of an unfolding long form reciprocal exchange between two like-minded organisations, taking place over 2024-25. Exchange in this context, looks to the geographical, spatial and contextual and invites both organisations to form a dialogue between one another’s programming.

Our Teeth are Reefs, an off-site group exhibition at Collective Ending, London, featuring artists Lucien Anderson, Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton, Jungwon Jay Hur and Rhett Leinster. 

Trace fossils are geological records of activity of a past life. Nest, burrows, tracks are preserved in sedimentary rock, providing a glimpse into the behaviours of an ancient life – rather than the physical petrified remains of an organism. In Underland, Robert Macfarlane’s 2019 book, he writes “We all carry trace fossils within us... Handwriting on an envelope; the wear on a wooden step left by footfall; the memory of a familiar gesture by someone gone, repeated so often it has worn its own groove in both air and mind; these are trace fossils too.” In Our Teeth are Reefs, the exhibition brings together a selection of artists with singular approaches to ideas of value, excavation and belonging in a place, but with shared interest into the slippery property of materials.

Private View – Friday 22nd March, 6-9pm
Open – Fri-Sat 12-6pm and Sun 12-4pm until 14th April 2024
Collective Ending HQ, 3 Creekside, London SE8 4SA