Group Show | One that includes myth | London | 2023
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Goodman Gallery presents One that includes myth, a group exhibition about the meditative practices expressed through materiality, featuring work by thirteen contemporary artists from around the world with a focus on artists originating from the global South. The exhibition draws inspiration from a well-known statement by US novelist Alice Walker in 1983, stating that “a crazy quilt story is one that can jump back and forth in time and work on many different levels, and one that can include myth”.
Walker provides a salient framework for considering how traditional handwork can be a tool for the way in which these contemporary artists’ play with ideas of time. Works throughout the exhibition reference cultural practices that have been on the precipice of being lost, which have been preserved through a contemporary lens. whose works use meditative and manual processes to consider nonlinear approaches to time in relation to ‘post’-colonialism and traditional forms of making from South Africa to Ghana and Malaysia.
Ghada Amer | El Anatsui | Elizabet Cerviño | Leonardo Drew | Vibha Galhotra | Yee I-Lann | Remy Jungerman | Kapwani Kiwanga | Laura Lima | Tabita Rezaire | Naama Tsabar | Osman Yousefzada
Installation view | One that contains myth, Goodman Gallery London, 2023
Installation view | One that contains myth, Goodman Gallery London, 2023
Installation view | One that contains myth, Goodman Gallery London, 2023
Installation view | One that contains myth, Goodman Gallery London, 2023
Installation view | One that contains myth, Goodman Gallery London, 2023
Installation view | One that contains myth, Goodman Gallery London, 2023
Installation view | One that contains myth, Goodman Gallery London, 2023
Installation view | One that contains myth, Goodman Gallery London, 2023
Ghada Amer
Another Grey Iman, 2003
Acrylic, Embroidery and Gel Medium on canvas
182.9 x 177.8 cm / 72 x 70 in.
Laura Lima
Iara, 2023
Raw cotton threads, natural dying (senna, seven sangrias, fennel, chamomile, horsetail, mate tea, black tea, annatto, sweet paprika, turmeric, coffee, red wine, red cabbage, beetroot, hibiscus flower, onion skins, tobacco, vinegar)
210 x 80 x 8 cm / 82.7 x 31.5 x 3.1 in.
Naama Tsabar
Work on Felt (Variation 25) Black, 2021
Carbon fiber, epoxy, wood, felt, microphone, guitar amplifier
195.6 x 151.4 x 55.9 cm / 77 x 59.6 x 22 in.
Kapwani Kiwanga
Flowers for Africa: Union of South Africa, 2017
Protocol of assembly and display including archival iconography to guide the reconstruction of a floral arrangement consisting of cut flowers
Variable Dimensions
Remy Jungerman
Pimba AGIDA KAA III, 2020
Cotton textile, kaolin (pimba) on wood panel (plywood)
240 x 80 x 5 cm / 94.5 x 31.5 x 2 in.
El Anatsui
Sovereignty, 2021
Aluminum, copper wire, and nylon string
360 x 315 cm / 141.7 x 124 in.
Nicholas Hlobo
Ivulandlela, 2018
Ribbon and leather on canvas
120 x 180 x 20 cm / 47.2 x 70.9 x 7.8 in.
Elizabet Cerviño
Recuento, 2022
Hand modulated fabrics with fiber extracted from the Henequen plant
Edition of 2
Yee I-Lann with weaving by Lili Naming, Siat Yanau, Shahrizan Shah, and Johin Endelengau
& (black), & (white), Exploding & (black), Exploding & (white), 2021
Split bamboo pus weave with kayu obol black natural dye, matt sealant
118.8 x 84.1 cm / 46.8 x 33.1 in. each
Edition of 8
Osman Yousefzada
Charpai’s Sculpture, 2022
Harwood, Textile Waste twined as Rope, Salvaged Colonial 1930’s Doors
50 x 150 x 180 cm / 19.7 x 59.1 x 70.9 in.