ANIMA/ [pop-up exhibition]

Anima:
an·i·ma /ˈa-nə-mə/
noun
an individual’s true inner self; in the analytical psychology of Carl Gustav Jung, an archetypal inner feminine aspect of the male personality.

We love and fear the non-human animal in equal measure, just as we love and fear the uncontrollable animal of our own bodies. It’s abject, sticky, large, furry, sharp, kinky, and soft.

ANIMA/ is a pop-up group exhibition bringing together 22 emerging artists investigating a tangled relationship with animality – the creatures outwith, within, and beside. Rather than treating the animal as subject, this exhibition considers animality as a method: a way of thinking through the body, instinct, appetite, sexuality, transformation, and the limits of what it means to be human.

This exhibition is a love letter to the creatural method. Through multi- and inter- disciplinary works, we invite you to enter a space of freedom and discomfort, where the human form is

malleable and
transcendent and
bestial and
trans and
beautiful and
terrifying/

Join us for the opening of ANIMA/ 01 and encounter the work of 22 artists exploring bodies, instinct, desire, transformation, and the unstable boundary between human and other.

Participating artists:
Anna Billany, Phoebe Blaskett, Yunhee Chang, Saffron Ceramics, Isabel Coats Vergara, Julia Giles, Bibi Fox-Harris, Mia Hinds/ Blue Corporeality, Scarlett Hope-Gates, Gabriel Klein, Jiyont Kym, Fazil Maniar, Alexander Pelouch, Laura Perdomo, Maia Shelley Rakovic, Amelia Rawlinson, Louise Richards, Christie Swallow, Alexander Tarasenko, Kate Youme, Tami Olga Zafeiropoulou, Lena Zinski

Opening times:

Friday 18th: 10:30am - 7pm

Saturday 19th: 10:30am - 7pm

Sunday 20th: 10:30am - 2pm

Event venue

Arch 3.2, Hackney Downs Studios, Amhurst Terrace, London, United Kingdom

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