We Are Made Of Star Stuff

About

The exhibition WE ARE MADE OF STAR STUFF at HOXTON 253 art project space invites us to unearth the layered entanglements that exist between humans and their natural environment in the context of geological time. 
Held by rocks, minerals, ice and the crust of the ground we walk on – our busy surface world percolates the evidence of slow ‘deep time’ processes that have the power to pull us in and reconnect us with the vanished worlds that came before our own, and with those yet to come. Measured in millions of years, this timescale reveals Earth as a monument of destruction and disruption where boundaries between the concepts of the past, present and future blur. Geology is a long-term commitment. It is a way of seeing the world across multiple timescales whilst holding it simultaneously in the mind’s eye. 

By proposing we re-think our relation to temporality, the exhibition positions deep time as a vantage point which is no longer bound to the dominating constructs of capitalist time, the brief time we live, or even to the extended time of our species. A geological worldview restores attention to the way in which human and non-human agencies are all wrapped together, and points towards a more plurally determined existence.
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Exhibiting artists: Lydia Brockless, Ilana Halperin, Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė, Matthew Needham​, Josephine Pryde, Georgia Somerville Watts and​ Maël Traïca.

​Curated by Berta Zubrickaitė, in collaboration with HOXTON 253.
Graphic design by João Chaves.

​For further enquiries, please contact Zsuzsa Benke zsuzsa@hoxton253.com  

​The exhibition and associated programme are supported by and part of HELLO AGAIN, HACKNEY, the borough's cultural reopening initiative.

Special thanks to Asahi, Simon Lee Gallery, João Chaves, Richard, the Hoxton Trust and Omni for their generous support and sponsorship.

EVENTS

Opening reception: Thursday 3rd March 5-9pm / Drinks sponsored by Asahi Super Dry​

Solar Dyeing with Plants workshop with textile artist Zuzana Krskova
11:30am-1pm or 2pm - 3:30pm | Saturday 12th March 2022 | RSVP 

Cut, pile, shift, disrupt! Deep Time Thinking Through Collage - Workshop with the artist Lydia Brockless
​10am-12pm | Saturday 19th March 2022 | RSVP 

Thematic drawing session with artist Kelly Sweeney
7-9pm | Tuesday 22nd March 2022 ! RSVP