- Venue
- Bow Arts Nunnery Gallery
- Starts
- Thursday, October 7, 2021
- Ends
- Sunday, December 19, 2021
- Address
- 181 Bow Rd E3 2SJ London
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- Bow Arts
Please join us for the private view of the
2021 Bow Open | Aboutface: regroup, reorganise, reimagine
selected by Leyla Reynolds, artist, curator and gal-dem founding member
on Thursday 7 October, 6-9pm with a live performance from Isabel Castro Jung
Leyla Reynolds has selected 24 artists for Bow Arts’ annual Open Show, all responding to her title, Aboutface: regroup, reorganise, reimagine. Jung’s performance incorporates wearable sculpture as a form of protective amour and an extension of the body itself. The garment, weighing over 50kg is made of castanets reflecting on the wearer’s Spanish heritage, and presents the question of an individual’s history as something that weighs heavily upon us, something we carry with us through life.
Following a year that has challenged those in the cultural sector particularly, gal-dem’s Bow Open demonstrates the power of artists and their imaginations to regroup following disaster, and reorganise with humour, frankness and inspiring visual potency. Works range from politically charged banners, a delicate spine of ceramic COVID masks and jewellery inspired by the Hindu Goddess Kali Ma, a beacon of hope and resistance to anti-colonial movements during the Bengal revolution. Powerfully commenting on many of the overarching political themes of the past year – gender identity, the environment, the pandemic, decolonisation, digital overload – the exhibition offers realism, satire, beauty and optimism.
Exhibiting Artists: Nitin Amin; Annamaria Antonazzo; Reza Ben Gajra; Nell Brookfield; Victoria Burgher; Ellie Burkett; Isabel Castro Jung; Nathalie Coste; Franco Di Cesare; Tom Foulsham; Romulo Gonçalves; Rebecca Griffiths; Nicci James; Eve Lam; Rachel Mercer; Marcus Orlandi; Harry Owens; Ayesha Sureya Patel; Tabitha Powles; Luke Anthony Rooney; Kyungmin Sophia Son; Scallywag Fox; Tara Versey; Toby Wilson.
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Exhibition open 8 October – 19 December 2021
Nunnery Gallery 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ Tube Bow Road DLR Bow Church Cycle CS2
