Medium & Memory @ HackelBury Fine Art

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Medium & Memory @ HackelBury Fine Art

September 2nd, 2023 by fstop

Joanne Leonard, Newspaper Diary series, 2012 © Joanne Leonard (courtesy of HackelBury Fine Art, London)

Medium & Memory
7th October – 21st November 2023

Artists: Sutapa Biswas, Bracha L Ettinger, Benjamin Hannavy Cousens, Joanne Leonard, Christine Taylor Patten, Judith Tucker, Asel Kadyrkhanova, Coral Woodbury

“HackelBury is delighted to be hosting the group exhibition Medium & Memory curated by art historian and contemporary art writer Griselda Pollock. Medium & 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. ”

HackelBury Fine Art
4 Launceston Place, London W8 5RL

Location: England, London Type: Exhibition

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