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Poster for "Wyrd Then:Weird Now"
Exhibition
Wyrd Then: Weird Now
13 Apr 2016 – 5 May 2016
Event times
Monday-Friday: 10am-6pm
Saturday: 11am-12pm
Address
- 93 Baker Street
- London
England - W1U 6RL
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Baker Street
- Baker St / Marylebone
The Koppel Project is delighted to present its second exhibition '’Wyrd Then : Weird Now’, featuring the work of Sol Bailey Barker, Tom Hatton and Joe Farley.
About
For 'Wyrd Then : Weird Now' artist Sol Bailey Barker takes the ancient ritual axe as a starting point to explore notions of sacred objects and rituals of the Neolithic landscapes of Europe. Through an investigation of the evolution of sacred forms and materials, and in reviving shamanic characters to perform ancient object-based rituals, Bailey Barker reflects on the relationship between societies and their enduring power symbols.
Bailey Barker has worked in collaboration with composer and sound artist Joe Farley to create a complex soundscape for the exhibition, making use of the sculptures’ sonic potential, and employing them as ritual instruments. This soundscape is used as the soundtrack for an accompanying film, made in collaboration with cinematographer Ruben Woodin Dechamps.
‘Wyrd Then : Weird Now’ features work from ‘Outpost’, a photographic series by Tom Hatton made around the North Wales mining town of Blaenau Ffestiniog. The series, presenting the closed slate mines as evocative space-scapes, captures the harsh geometry of the landscape, which has inspired much of Bailey Barker's work.
