About this Event
Heterotopia is an exhibition focused on creating a world within the world, built from film, evolving visual art, and collective making. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s idea of heterotopias as “other” spaces reflecting and unsettling the society that surrounds them, it creates room for the exploration of complex themes, identities, and experiences that traditional institutions too often marginalise.
The exhibition brings together disabled, neurodivergent, and queer artists, Beth Momot, Circe Mannell, and Ror Gir, whose work translates feeling, embodiment, and identity into forms beyond language. Dystopian aesthetics mark that this is not a seamless utopia, but a temporary imperfect refuge shaped by its participants.
Audiences are encouraged to become makers rather than solely spectators. In Beth Momot’s artist-led collage workshop, visitors construct images from their own experiences, taking works away or adding them to the evolving exhibition. Heterotopia is thus a living archive, a fragile, improvised world made by those who have been asked to adapt to others’ spaces, and who here make a space of their own.
Event venue & nearby stays
Somerset House - East Wing, Strand, London, United Kingdom
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