- Venue
- Micklegate Social and Fossgate Social
- Starts
- Friday, January 13, 2023
- Ends
- Monday, March 13, 2023
- Address
- 148-150 Micklegate, York YO1 6JX, 25 Fossgate, York YO1 9TA
- Location
- Yorkshire
- Organiser
- Micklegate Social and Fossgate social.
“Back to Normalism”, a solo exhibition by John Ledger (b. 1984, Barnsley, South Yorkshire), is about a time and culture that has been uprooted and disjointed by a series of crises, plus the distorting consequences of trying to repeatedly return to a `before´ moment. The exhibition uses a collection of the artist´s works that span form the present to the last 14 years, back to the 2008 financial crisis, in order to explore what John suggests with a culture that feels increasingly stuck and detached from itself.
“Back to Normalism” explores the darkest concerns of our age, whilst inviting all viewers to contemplate how they felt as the world momentarily stopped in 2020, and to ask beyond the hustle and white noise of the present tense, what sort of world do you truthfully desire?
In 2012, John took part in PANDEMIC York, a situationist art event that took place in the basement of Micklegate Social when it was still an art exhibition venue. Since 2019, John has come to be acquainted with Mike and Sarah from the Social, partaking in events for Artbomb, in nearby Doncaster.
