Event overview
Opening Reception
The Goldsmiths Textile Collection and Constance Howard Gallery is pleased to launch an exhibition of works by the winner of the Christine Risley Award 2017, Clémentine Marie Jeanne Durand-Bedos.
The award was made in recognition of the strength of her performance work ‘Contagious Hystories’, performed during the BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree Show. An associated film will be on exhibit at the Constance Gallery, along with photographic documentation by the audience and garments hand-made by the artist.
Contagious Hystories, sensitively dealt with ideas around the divided self, drawing upon the relationship between textile and the body to physically and spatially describe the emergence of two separate identities from a whole through the duration of a 1.5 hour performance. Utilising digital, and screen printing in combination with cyanotype processes, the hand-made garments, which draw on personal, family and cultural histories, embody this metamorphosis.
The performance was held in an autonomous temporary structure on ‘disused’ land in New Cross, from which travellers were recently evicted. Asking the audience to climb over a wall into this confined space, required them to enact the experience of displacement whilst creating a sense of inclusion through the intimacy of the shared experience.
Constance Howard Gallery Exhibitions & Events
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Sep 2017 | 4:00pm - 8:00pm |
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