- Venue
- Hold Creative Spaces
- Starts
- Saturday, October 8, 2022
- Ends
- Monday, October 10, 2022
- Address
- Penstone House Albert St Ramsgate CT11 9HD
- Location
- South East England
- Organiser
- Julia Rogers
What If … a construct by Julia Rogers
Julia Rogers’ much anticipated new exhibition ‘What If …’ opens at Hold Creative Spaces in Ramsgate this Friday, 7th October.
Following her celebrated solo show last year ‘Ancestral Guide’, exploring her emotional ties with her childhood, Julia Rogers has now developed work on different realities, where she reinterprets omens and elevates the ordinary in a sideways glance at the search for meaning.
“An exquisite jewel, so personal but so easy to connect with – completely sent me off into my own memories and relationship with family, objects and life journey. Do not be fooled by the apparent simplicity of presentation – this will transport you.”
Her search for meaning has always been present. Since she was young she has been a ritualistic follower of the old adage ‘See a penny, pick it up, then all day you’ll have good luck’. It wasn’t until Sep 2014 when she started to take it more seriously, documenting and preserving her found ‘luck’. Her collection has inevitably grown since then, as did the problem of how to present them. Her luckiest day, months, years, places and sides are her metrics and in this exhibition she has had to take up the role of cartographer as she explores this intangible concept.
This show looks at prediction, hopes and desires in these uncertain, chaotic times through thought provoking connections, humour and nostalgia. We look to the stars and we tremble before our gods, we predict our fate, we see shepherd’s delight. We assign meaning to all manner of things in order to have hope, to believe in something bigger than us, that there is a plan and we have a part to play, we find comfort in certainty, predictability.
What Rogers has been able to do without doubt is to extract the data to predict the most likely days to find a coin and which way up they may be. Feeling lucky, finding something can make you feel good. It gives hope. She looks to the stars and sees her children, her family, her love.
Are you feeling lucky?
“What If … a construct by Julia Rogers” opens on Friday 7th Oct, 6-8pm, and continues until Monday 10th Oct, 11-5pm daily. Hosted in the newly renovated gallery at Hold Creative Spaces, Penstone House, Albert St, Ramsgate, CT11 9HD
