Event overview
The Visitors is a joint exhibition by artists Anna Salmane and Patricia Mulligan at NX Projects, New Cross, which explores the primal repressions of the subconscious mind.
The Visitors
NX Projects, corner of Batavia Road and Clifton Rise, New Cross SE14 6AX
9th June - 22nd June 2016
Talk with the artists: 5.30pm Thursday 9th June
Featuring former Goldsmiths BA Fine Art students Anna Salmane and Patricia Mulligan, and curated by MFA Curating student Cecily Rainey.
Anna Salmane, Visiting Bertha (2014), series of three digital prints.
Patricia Mulligan, ...a beginning, middle and an end...or...how words come out of bodies... (2016), mud, clay, wood.
curated by Cecily Rainey.
The Visitors is a joint exhibition by artists Anna Salmane and Patricia Mulligan which explores the primal repressions of the unconscious mind. The unnerving, amorphous forms in Salmane's photographic series 'Visiting Bertha' are inspired by the character of Bertha - classified as mad and confined to an attic - in Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre (1847). Constructed from waste materials accessible to a woman in Bertha's position, their sculpted forms share an affinity to Mulligan's series of mud and clay sculptures '...a beginning, middle and an end...or...how words come out of bodies...' Drawing on the messy, abject quality of her materials, Mulligan's work considers the base forces driving our primitive instincts and shaping our deepest notions of self.
The work of both artists gives form to disorderly and inarticulate psychological forces which are typically repressed or hidden away in the attics of our minds. Presented here in the vitrine of NX Projects, these forces are instead laid open to passing spectators as visitors to a scene of mental unrest.
This exhibition is the final component of a three-part series of projects by MFA Curating students. Previous projects have included:
Francis Almendárez, New Cross / Van Nuys
Curator: Caroline Elbaor
9th May - 21st May 2016
Lisa Vlamings, "only a signal shown"
Curator: Tony Tremlett
23rd May - 5th June 2016
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 9 Jun 2016 |
6:30pm - 8:00pm Preview event |
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| 10 Jun 2016 | 1:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 11 Jun 2016 | 1:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 12 Jun 2016 | 1:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 13 Jun 2016 | 1:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 14 Jun 2016 | 1:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 15 Jun 2016 | 1:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 16 Jun 2016 | 1:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 17 Jun 2016 | 1:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 18 Jun 2016 | 1:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 19 Jun 2016 | 1:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 20 Jun 2016 | 1:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 21 Jun 2016 | 1:00am - 11:00pm | |
| 22 Jun 2016 | 1:00am - 11:00pm |
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