About this Event
Join us for the opening of Bodies, a nine-month evolving exhibition exploring the body as resilient, vulnerable, and constantly changing. Celebrate the launch with the artists and curators, and experience the exhibition at its very first stage of transformation.
Exhitbion Overview:
The body is the first space we each inhabit, the structure that carries us through life. It is resilient and fragile, miraculous and unpredictable. This exhibition brings together artists whose work considers what it means to live in and with a body, how it forms, changes, endures, and sometimes resists our expectations.
Taking its framework from the nine months it takes for a human body to be made, the exhibition will unfold across the same period of time. Across nine months, artists will reflect on the body as both miracle and mystery, capable of carrying us through the most ordinary of days, and capable too of shifting and surprising us. Rather than remaining static, it will shift, evolve, and transform during its run. By the end of the nine months, the exhibition will have become something wholly different from what it was at the start, echoing the processes of growth, renewal, and adaptation that mark every life.
Alongside ideas of creation and change, the exhibition also addresses the complexity of bodies that do not behave in the ways we might imagine or desire. Illness, injury, and change can sometimes be framed as failure, as things having gone ‘wrong.’ Yet bodies are not right or wrong. They do what they can, constantly striving to sustain us. This exhibition celebrates the persistence, resourcefulness, and honesty of bodies in all their forms.
The Artists’ General Benevolent Institution exists to support professional visual artists unable to work due to illness or injury. This exhibition aligns with that mission and acknowledges the vulnerability that comes with depending on the body for livelihood, while also recognising the creativity and strength that arise from navigating the body’s uncertainties.
“Bodies” invites visitors to consider the body not as a fixed entity but as an ever-changing companion capable of surprising us, challenging us, and teaching us what it means to endure.
Artists – First Iteration
Beth Seeboo
A London-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, textiles, collage, and writing. Their practice interrogates fragmented and abject bodies in relation to labour, capitalism, and lived experience.
Elena Subach
A Ukrainian visual artist based in Lviv whose photographic work explores memory, land, and the body through documentary and abstraction. Her project reflects on rehabilitation, water, and bodily transformation.
Emma Franks
A multidisciplinary artist working with painting, performance, costume, and artist books. Her work explores pregnancy, motherhood, menopause, illness, and embodied care.
Melanie Issaka
A London-based visual artist and educator working with photography and mixed-media installation. Her practice examines identity, memory, and representation through material and lensless processes.
Rosa Nguyen
An artist working primarily with ceramic and glass sculpture, vessels, and installations. Her work explores the invisible body, life cycles, and spiritual connections between human and natural forms.
Paloma Tendero
A visual artist exploring heredity, illness, identity, and life cycles through photography. Her work reflects on embodied experience, vulnerability, and transformation over time.
Accessibility and Notes:
The venue is fully wheelchair accessible- (Please note our wheelchair accessible bathroom is located in the basement, which can be accessed via lift. Please let us know if you will require access in advance so we can ensure it is accessible).
All materials are provided
Please contact us for any access or support needs
Spaces are limited -early booking is recommended
All bathrooms are Gender Neutral
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
15 Churton St, 15 Churton Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
