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Viewing Unlimited Festival 2024 at Southbank Centre

Unlimited Festival – founded in 2013 – is a multi-artform, perspective-shifting festival showcasing outstanding dance, performance, comedy, music, poetry and visual art by disabled artists. The packed four day programme taking place at the Southbank Centre includes a free exhibition of a new commission for Unlimited by photographer Suzie Larke. Larke spent three years making the work in collaboration with individuals and mental well being groups. Larke says of the project: ‘The essence of belonging is like the invisible thread that weaves through the fabric of our mental wellbeing. It’s not just a fleeting desire or a passing fancy; it’s a fundamental need within us. When we feel connected, valued, and accepted by others, it nourishes our sense of self-worth and contributes significantly to our overall happiness.’


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Dates
04 September 2024 — 08 September 2024

Viewing Your Mind is Now An Ocean at Pilar Corrias

This beautiful group show titled Your Mind is Now an Ocean at Pilar Corrias – including artists Koo Jeong A, Ragna Bley, Keren Cytter, Sophie von Hellermann, Manuel Mathieu, Mary Ramsden, Rachel Rose, and Julião Sarmento – explores the ocean’s significance in art, as a subject and symbol signalling the sublime and the unconscious.

Immerse yourself in Keren Cytter’s short film Ocean (2014), where the show gets its title. As the characters lives seem to unravel, the ocean seems to offer comfort and solace. Elsewhere, works Manuel Mathieu explore paints watery interactions with the surface of the canvas, leading the artist to contemplate conceptual ideas about disappearing and the ephemeral, while Mary Marsden hints at the sea in oil paintings rendered with sparse marks.

We also love the episodic series of minimal, restrained line drawings Koo Jeong A made to record experiences, both literal and imagined, of swimming and walking within a landscape, fragments that evoke natural surroundings – craggy cliffs or jutting rocks – that also speak to the feeling of being alone and open to the elements. Your Mind is Now An Ocean offers an unexpected and poetic look at an subject with ancient roots in art, timely without being corny. Take a dip before it closes at the end of the week.

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Dates
31 July 2024 — 30 September 2024

Viewing Gerhard Richter’s ode to the Alps

As the ski season kicks off in earnest, we’re taking a trip to the Alps with this week’s Wick List, bringing you the shows to catch when you hit the slopes. First up is German artist Gerhard Richter’s homage to the Engadin valley in Switzerland, where he has holidayed for over 25 years.

More than 70 works, spread across three sites – Nietzsche-Haus in Sils Maria, and the Segantini Museum and Hauser & Wirth in St Moritz – celebrate the familiarity and alienness of its snowy peaks, waterfalls and lakes. Among them are paintings, drawings, and over-painted photographs, in which he accentuates the images with delicate lines, stains and splatters of colour, with astonishing results. His dazzling works are a Technicolor tribute to scenery with an undeniable pull.

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