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Image courtesy of the Horniman Museum and Gardens
Exhibition
The Lore of the Land
20 Oct 2018 – 28 Apr 2019
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Monday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:30
- Friday
- 10:00 – 17:30
Cost of entry
FREE
Address
- 100 London Rd
- Forest Hill
- London
England - SE23 3PQ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 176, 185, 197, 356, P4
- London Overground Line and trains from London Bridge
- Forrest Hill Train Station
The Studio, a new space for showcasing social arts practice, will open to the public on Saturday 20 October 2018. The inaugural exhibition, The Lore of the Land, is co-curated by artist Serena Korda as part of a Collective and features an immersive, multi-sensory installation by Korda.
About
The Lore of the Land responds to the Horniman’s world-class anthropology collection and explores our deep-rooted relationship with the natural world, centred around Korda’s five large-scale ceramic works entitled ‘Sensitive Chaos’. Each ceramic piece incorporates bulbous organic forms and plant matter and is accompanied by an individual scent, inspired by essential oils distilled from plants in the Horniman’s 16-acre Gardens, and a site-specific soundscape based on recordings of the chemical processes occurring in plants and trees. The title is taken from Theodor Schwenk’s book on water and flow research.
The exhibition is completed with a display of 100 objects from the Horniman’s anthropology collection, curated by the Collective. The objects have been selected for the messages they carry about people’s spiritual and cultural relationship with plants and water. They include a statue of Mami Wata – an African deity accompanied by her divining snake, zoomorphic Oudh figurines, a dowsing stick, natural water containers, and an array of pipes, scent and incense holders from across the world. Also among the highlights is a rare volume of Anna Atkins’ mid-19th-century Photographs of British Algae, the first ever photographically-illustrated book.
