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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

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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

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

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

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

Group Show | One that includes myth | London | 2023 -  - Viewing Room - Goodman Gallery

Ghada Amer
Another Grey Iman, 2003

Acrylic, Embroidery and Gel Medium on canvas
182.9 x 177.8 cm / 72 x 70 in.

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Group Show | One that includes myth | London | 2023 -  - Viewing Room - Goodman Gallery

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.

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Group Show | One that includes myth | London | 2023 -  - Viewing Room - Goodman Gallery

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.

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Group Show | One that includes myth | London | 2023 -  - Viewing Room - Goodman Gallery

Tabita Rezaire

Fertility Ritual, 2022

12 pottery figures

Variable dimensions

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Group Show | One that includes myth | London | 2023 -  - Viewing Room - Goodman Gallery

Tabita Rezaire

Mother Sun, 2023
Cotton
140 x 140 cm / 55.1 x 55.1 in.

Edition of 3

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Group Show | One that includes myth | London | 2023 -  - Viewing Room - Goodman Gallery

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

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Group Show | One that includes myth | London | 2023 -  - Viewing Room - Goodman Gallery

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.

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Group Show | One that includes myth | London | 2023 -  - Viewing Room - Goodman Gallery

Vibha Galhotra

Chronotope, 2022

Ghungroos, Board and Metal

167.6 x 429.3 cm / 66 x 169 in.

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Group Show | One that includes myth | London | 2023 -  - Viewing Room - Goodman Gallery

Leonardo Drew
Number 319, 2021

Wood and paint
152.4 x 129.5 x 45.7 cm / 60 x 51 x 18 in.

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Group Show | One that includes myth | London | 2023 -  - Viewing Room - Goodman Gallery

El Anatsui
Sovereignty, 2021

Aluminum, copper wire, and nylon string
360 x 315 cm / 141.7 x 124 in.

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Group Show | One that includes myth | London | 2023 -  - Viewing Room - Goodman Gallery

Nicholas Hlobo

Ivulandlela, 2018
Ribbon and leather on canvas
120 x 180 x 20 cm / 47.2 x 70.9 x 7.8 in.

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Group Show | One that includes myth | London | 2023 -  - Viewing Room - Goodman Gallery

Elizabet Cerviño

Recuento, 2022
Hand modulated fabrics with fiber extracted from the Henequen plant

Edition of 2

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Group Show | One that includes myth | London | 2023 -  - Viewing Room - Goodman Gallery

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

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Group Show | One that includes myth | London | 2023 -  - Viewing Room - Goodman Gallery

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.

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