MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, has launched an online exhibition that sees three artists react to the current crisis, responding to conflicted and complicated relationships with home.
The exhibition, entitled Thresholds, explores artists Sonia Boué, Lindsay Duncanson and Catriona Gallagher’s reflections on changing relations to home and their work as artists during the Covid-19 pandemic. The artworks – photographs and films – were specially created for this digital exhibition and are accompanied by a new essay.
The exhibition is organised by MIMA’s Associate Curator Aidan Moesby, an expert on disability and digital who champions equity and access in his work.
Sonia Boué presents a series of 12 photographs, entitled Safe as Houses, 2020, taken during the transitional period between the Covid-19 lockdown and the easing of restrictions, during which she moved to a new studio. The objects hold emotional significance for the artist, often relating to childhood.
Lindsay Duncanson, through the short film Brief Loss, 2020, depicts the artist’s physical and emotional experiences of confinement to home during the Covid-19 lockdown. As a filmmaker, photographer and sound artist based in Newcastle, her audio-visual work investigates her relationship to, and interaction with landscape and location.
Catriona Gallagher weaves together an assemblage of films, creating a narrative through repetition. Video Villanelle (for distance), 2020, documents her experience of being caught between Athens, Greece, and her new home in Northumberland via a period of ‘uncertain waiting’ in the South East of England.
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