Pink Walkway
Sonia Boyce: In the Castle Of My Skin
(A collaborative exhibition led and co-curated by Sonia Boyce)
11 Jun – 10 Oct 2021
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Photo credit: Rachel Deakin
Vinyl emulsion and pencil on wall
9 x 4.75m
Text courtesy of MIMA
An exhibition created with one of Britain’s foremost artists, Sonia Boyce. In the Castle of My Skin offers a sensory arena, with a large sculpture by Boyce, based on the shape of Fool’s Gold connecting with artworks by 12 contemporary artists and selected pieces from MIMA’s Middlesbrough Collection. With Saelia Aparicio, Simeon Barclay, Anna Barham, Emma Bennett, Kev Howard, Lindiwe Matshikiza, Harold Offeh, Flora Parrott, Penny Payne, Alberta Whittle and Kenizzi Yamalimbu. The exhibition’s title comes from a novel by George Lamming.
The exhibition has been put together with Boyce through a process of improvisation, with one decision informing the next and creating a chain of connections. The associative presentation of works from the 1950s to today encourages the viewer to find links across artworks from different eras made in a range of materials. The theme of skin—as a covering, surface, barrier and marker of identity—weaves through the exhibition.
Some works ask questions about what we remember, individually and as a society. A dynamic five-meter-high wall painting by Emma Bennett responding to the modernist architecture of a now-demolished local library is paired with prints by Bridget Riley originally displayed in the same library. Alberta Whittle’s video between a whisper and a cry draws connections between the legacies of colonialism and contemporary experiences of climate change in the Caribbean.
Many of the artists use movement, improvisation, repetition and play to consider how the body connects with its environment and other living beings. Photographs by Kev Howard show the intricate designs of prosthetic limbs, while Harold Offeh’s Selfie Choreography video invites visitors to explore the exhibition using selfie-sticks and cameras to think about technology as an extension of the body and how we perform our identities.
MIMA — Sonia Boyce, In the Castle of My Skin
Sonia Boyce: In the Castle Of My Skin
(A collaborative exhibition led and co-curated by Sonia Boyce)
11 Jun – 10 Oct 2021
Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
Photo credit: Rachel Deakin
Vinyl emulsion and pencil on wall
9 x 4.75m
Text courtesy of MIMA
An exhibition created with one of Britain’s foremost artists, Sonia Boyce. In the Castle of My Skin offers a sensory arena, with a large sculpture by Boyce, based on the shape of Fool’s Gold connecting with artworks by 12 contemporary artists and selected pieces from MIMA’s Middlesbrough Collection. With Saelia Aparicio, Simeon Barclay, Anna Barham, Emma Bennett, Kev Howard, Lindiwe Matshikiza, Harold Offeh, Flora Parrott, Penny Payne, Alberta Whittle and Kenizzi Yamalimbu. The exhibition’s title comes from a novel by George Lamming.
The exhibition has been put together with Boyce through a process of improvisation, with one decision informing the next and creating a chain of connections. The associative presentation of works from the 1950s to today encourages the viewer to find links across artworks from different eras made in a range of materials. The theme of skin—as a covering, surface, barrier and marker of identity—weaves through the exhibition.
Some works ask questions about what we remember, individually and as a society. A dynamic five-meter-high wall painting by Emma Bennett responding to the modernist architecture of a now-demolished local library is paired with prints by Bridget Riley originally displayed in the same library. Alberta Whittle’s video between a whisper and a cry draws connections between the legacies of colonialism and contemporary experiences of climate change in the Caribbean.
Many of the artists use movement, improvisation, repetition and play to consider how the body connects with its environment and other living beings. Photographs by Kev Howard show the intricate designs of prosthetic limbs, while Harold Offeh’s Selfie Choreography video invites visitors to explore the exhibition using selfie-sticks and cameras to think about technology as an extension of the body and how we perform our identities.
MIMA — Sonia Boyce, In the Castle of My Skin