Saturday Slow Preview: Tale of the Frozen Bits

This Saturday Slow Preview is an opportunity to book a timed visit with additional restricted capacity in the gallery, so you can enjoy our new exhibition at your own pace.

This is also a chance for you to ask questions to Castlefield Gallery Curator and Deputy Director Matthew Pendergast as well as other members of the team who worked on the exhibition. Refreshments will be provided.

Tale of the Frozen Bits is the first major solo exhibition of work by El Morgan.

Incorporating sculpture, sound, video, text and animation work, the exhibition explores the rich and surprising history of fertility drugs, a witches brew of ingredients that laid the path for our modern day medicines. Gallons of nun’s urine, multiplying hamster cells, horse glands and millions of frogs appear in a playful narrative that opens up our relationship with the bodies of women and the often ethically controversial branch of medicine. At a time when reproductive rights are being curtailed across the globe and innovations in medical science are occurring at a rapid pace, this bold exhibition attempts to make the clinical tangible, unpacking progressive science and complex legal and ethical responsibilities.

Event Venue

Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt Street, Manchester, United Kingdom