MIRROR | Bodies in Space

MIRROR presents Bodies in Space, a group exhibition curated by Ben Borthwick

Sat 27 Nov 2021 - Sat 26 Feb 2022

Nicola Bealing / Flo Brooks / Andrea Büttner / Andrew Pierre Hart / Nick Jensen / Claudette Johnson / Joy Labinjo / Bruno Pacheco

Bodies in Space presents work by artists using the figure in painting and drawing to question and understand how we occupy, move through and negotiate the public and private spaces of daily life. The exhibition also reflects how figurative painting and drawing becomes more visible at times of wider social and political change.

This exhibition, itself hugely delayed due to the Covid 19 pandemic, has been adapted to reflect on the impact of social distancing and the wider disruption of social conventions on issues of representation and equality such as Black Lives Matter and debates around queer and trans rights.

Some artists in this show use the figure in allegorical ways while others treat the figure as an apparition emerging from abstraction. In spite of these differences in approaches, the disjunction between the body, space and time is a common thread across works and forms the basis of this exhibition.

Ben Borthwick is an independent Curator and Head of Creative Programme at KARST. He combines working internationally with grass roots artist development and community engagement in Plymouth. He was previously Artistic Director of Plymouth Arts Centre, CEO of Artes Mundi and Assistant Curator at Tate Modern.

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MIRROR is a public gallery, events programme and online resource based out of and supported by Plymouth College of Art. For upcoming exhibitions and events visit www.mirrorplymouth.com

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Opening times:
Monday-Friday: 9am - 5pm,
Saturday: 10am - 2pm
Sunday: Closed

Please note, it is free to visit MIRROR. The gallery is closed every Sunday.