- Venue
- The Freud Museum
- Starts
- Wednesday, September 7, 2011
- Ends
- Sunday, October 2, 2011
- Address
- 20 Maresfield Gardens London NW3 5SX
- Location
- London
An exhibition of work by Solveigh Goett & Judith Alder at the Freud Museum. Artwork that plays with the uncanny and mysterious, secrets and dreams, memories and metamorphosis, enchantment and encounters with the unknown. Some motifs trail through the body of work: wings and wonders, flowers and flight, books and boxes.For Touch & Tell the museum’s exhibition space is turned into a cabinet of wonders where the tangible and intangible interplay. While in the glass cabinets dangerous, fragile and secret things are kept out of reach, the other displays break with the traditional touch taboo of museums and galleries. Visitors are encouraged to open boxes and books, to gently explore with curious hands as well as eyes and mind, to rummage through the drawers of the artist’s memories and imaginations as if they were their own.In new work, Goett and Alder introduce a new cast of characters. Goett’s twilight figures, crafted from old family nightgowns, seem to have escaped from the dream-scape of the bedroom into the house’s public spaces, caught up in the act of metamorphosis while Alder’s “The Visitor” videos (part of a collaboration with artist and performer Clare Whistler) play with a strangeness in the familiar as Alder and Whistler embrace the presence of “a foreignness in things.”
