Friday 5th - Saturday 13th May
Opening Night: Friday 5th May 5 - 8pm
Open to the public: Wednesdays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays 10.30 - 5pm
Q&A session: Thursday 11th May 6pm
My Body In My Hands curated by artists Sam Lucas and Nick Grellier is an exhibition of images from their call out on instagram to post an image of a piece of work held in the hand. The works are a materially and conceptually wide ongoing response to the hashtags #mybodyinmyhands and #exploringtheneurodiversebody and are posted on instagram under the profile @theweightofbeing.
The core premise is to interpret how it feels to be (with)in the body and most artists have included a piece of text with their work. The exhibition is democratic and non-hierarchical - anyone can have their work in the exhibition alongside the ‘gallery’ on instagram and there will be a selection of physical works the gallery (nb artists do not need to identify as neurodiverse to be included in the project).
on November 17th 2022 I had a very small eureka moment as I was removing a piece of work from the warm kiln. I placed it in my hand and looked down. I had a thought, an impulse to take a photograph of the piece and place it on my social media, Instagram feed: To make a call out to others, to join my thinking, to add their thinking through creativity. A small act with potency, I thought, on a democratic platform. Something that neurodivergent thinkers are anecdotally well known for; Their dislike of hierarchy
….. I was surprised initially how this was making me feel, I analysed how I relinquished a sense of ownership as others took up the idea and made it theirs and passed it on further….. It is an interesting project as #mybodyinmyhands can encompass many different aspects of body, bodily experience. It is divergent in nature, which is what I am hoping and aiming for, a diverse response.
Sam Lucas
Sam will be providing a small clay mountain in the gallery at SVA throughout the exhibition for visitors to make their own #mybodyinmyhands to be added to the exhibition.
