- Venue
- Hypha Gallery 2
- Starts
- Thursday, April 17, 2025
- Ends
- Saturday, May 24, 2025
- Address
- 107 High Street, Sugar House Island, Stratford, E15 2RB
- Location
- South East England
- Organiser
- Shifting Grounds
Formed during their time on the MA Art & Ecology at Goldsmiths, University of London, Unground Collective share research-led practices that engage with critical understandings of climate and ecology. Shifting Grounds provides a platform for their diverse perspectives, fostering a dialogue between works and approaches that range from challenging the false boundaries of dualistic thought, through the fight to retain the sacred in the face of colonial extraction, to reimagining rituals to help shape liveable futures. The body – human and non-human – is ever-present, as a site of exploration of our relationships with non-human nature, of drawing out responses to the impacts of modernity on traditional lifeways, and for queering ideas about liveability.
The exhibition features a range of mediums, including film, sculpture, sound, and performance, creating a rich tapestry of artistic explorations. Works by Aliansyah Caniago (Indonesia), Sirun Chen (Chengdu), Rhiannon Hunter ( London), Linnea Johnels (Stockholm), Jane Lawson (Manchester), Sam Metz (Hull), Sohorab Rabbey (Bangladesh), Tina Ribarits (Berlin), Elizabeth Salazar (London) and Ella Wong (Hong Kong) converge, delving into the intricate connections between people, landscape, and non-human agents, exploring embodied relations and responses to ecology. The artists grapple with the realities of dispossession, social justice, colonial and capitalist extraction, and the unfolding ecocide, seeking to open up our collective imagination and find healing pathways to socially and environmentally just futures in a time of planetary unrest.
Events
17 April, 6-9: Preview, including durational performance by Elizabeth Salazar Guerra; please register at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/private-view-shifting-grounds-tickets-1300759920939
19 April, 2-5: Workshop – Jane Lawson: Diagrams are a world’s best friend
8 May: Performance (time tbc) – Sam Metz: Drawing as Stimming
17 May, 2-5: Workshop – Elizabeth Salazar Guerra: ONIONS AND…
Shifting Grounds is supported by HYPHA STUDIOS
