- Venue
- Peltz Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, July 3, 2014
- Ends
- Friday, July 25, 2014
- Address
- Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD
- Location
- London
How might we read memory in relation to the family, and how might we enact these memories in visual form? This group exhibition addresses the representation of family memory through the photography, video and sound works of six artists. ‘Family Ties: Reframing Memory’ explores the bittersweet aspects of reflective nostalgia, yet also questions the conflicts and contradictions inherent in acts of remembering.
Suze Adams navigates the borders of fact and fiction in an exploratory retracing of her maternal ancestors on the Isle of Mull. Nicky Bird draws on family albums belonging to others to illuminate personal, political memories connected to place. Jacqueline Butler’s poetic approach alludes to sensory memories prompted by public photographic collections and her personal archive. Rosy Martin re-enacts a lost past as she embodies both of her parents in their family home and evokes a sense of haunting using projections. Lizzie Thynne’s film and sound works reflect on her mother’s life as well as the inter-subjectivity of biography, choreographing memories of family and relationships from the Women’s Liberation Movement. Sally Waterman employs literary adaptation as a mechanism for self-portraiture, recalling traumatic memories of family conflict through T.S Eliot’s poem ‘The Waste Land’.
Events
Saturday 5th July, 2:00pm, Peltz Gallery: Artist Talk and short film screening
Friday 25th July, 6:30pm, Birkbeck cinema: Lizzie Thynne, ‘On the Border’ screening and Q&A.
