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Viewing Julianknxx: Chorus in Rememory of Flight

At the heart of Julianknxx’s rousing multi-video installation at the Curve is the 4,000 odyssey he took to nine cities across Europe with a heavy colonial legacy. The films splice his own poetry with urban scenes laden with the history of slavery, and performances and accounts from Black residents he met along the way, including a dancer improvising on the German subway. Often anger and exhaustion comes to the fore, with one resident refusing to do anything but sleep while he filmed her, because she was ‘tired of talking about Blackness’ and ‘wanted to rest’.

The stories the films collect are rich and varied, intertwining across the many screens to meditative effect. Choirs and musicians repeat the same refrain in one work, ‘We are what’s left of us’ in a tone that blends elegy with defiance. This is a show that will echo in your mind for weeks to come

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Viewing Daisy Collingridge, Splanchnic

Daisy Collingridge’s deliciously fleshy textile characters will gather in TJ Boulting’s exhibition in Borough next week, their exaggerated limbs and bellies stretching out across the gallery’s walls in flat, frieze-like formations – a new departure for the artist, whose sculptures usually stand alone.

Her first solo show Splanchnic (pronounced ‘splank-nik’) takes its name from the anatomical word relating to the internal organs of the abdomen. Collingridge is fascinated by the inner workings of the body that we know little about. She exposes them in her tactile sculptures, made from hand-dyed jersey fabric, which she quilts together.

In the second room of the gallery, she will recreate a character from her recent ‘wearable sculptures’ named Burt. Visitors will be able to crawl inside his giant head, usually worn by the artist herself, and see its innards up close. The effect will be cocooning and unsettling in equal measure.

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Dates
06 October 2023 — 11 November 2023

Viewing Idris Khan & Annie Morris at Pitzhanger Manor

It’s well worth the hike west to see artworld power couple Idris Khan and Annie Morris’ show at Pitzhanger Manor, the former country pad of Sir John Soane in Ealing. The pair have been together for more than a decade and though their practices remain distinct – Khan is known for his potent compositions of words, photography and music; Morris, for her exuberant stacks of brightly coloured spheres and illustrative textile works – it was only a matter of time before their shared experiences and influences began to rub off on their work, to poignant effect in the neoclassical house.

Khan and Morris were rocked by the stillbirth of their first child in 2010 and When Loss Makes Melodies grapples with this tragedy, as well as the death of Khan’s mother. Morris’ totems feel more off kilter than usual, their swollen spheres recalling her pregnant body, while their vivid ultramarine and viridian tones reflect her urge to find joy amid the sadness. Khan’s most personal piece is his sculpture My Mother, a moving composition of every photograph during her lifetime rendered in jesmonite.

The setting is apt: Soane wanted Pitzhanger to be a place of family togetherness but, after his wife died and he became estranged from his sons, it transformed into an echoey emblem of loss. The artworks interact with the fabric of the house, making a tour of Soane’s home full of surprises.

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Dates
04 October 2023 — 07 January 2024
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