- Venue
- HackelBury Fine Art
- Starts
- Saturday, September 16, 2023
- Ends
- Tuesday, November 21, 2023
- Address
- 4 Launceston Place London W8 5RL T: +44 20 7937 8688
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- HackelBury Fine Art
Sutapa Biswas
Bracha L. Ettinger
Benjamin Hannavy Cousen
Asel Kadyrkhanova
Joanne Leonard
Christine Taylor Patten
Judith Tucker
Coral Woodbury
Medium and Memory stages four conversations pairing eight artists from different countries, generations, ethnicities, and personal histories who all share a deep engagement with the materiality of their media—painting drawing, moving image, photography and photo-collage—while focussing on memory—personal, historical, cultural, suppressed, discovered, restored.
Putting a still resonant, modernist medium-consciousness into tension with a post-modern sense of responsibility to ‘the burden of history’, these artists explore an ethical dimension in contemporary art—a refusal to forget—and the potential of contemporary art for aesthetic transformation of traumatic legacies of war, famine, genocide, colonialism and de-industrialization as well as the memory-effacing effects of the digital age.
