Exhibition ‘Alaria’ Opens at The Gerald Moore Gallery
Bringing together new work by Eiko Soga, Esther Teichmann, and Miriam Austin, current Eltham College Artist-in-Residence, ‘Alaria’ offers imaginative engagement with landscapes shaped by water: island, swamp, and fen.
These artworks are grounded in the lived and embodied experience of specific environments, from the swamps of the Black Forest in Germany where Teichmann grew up, to the island of Hokkaido, Japan, where Soga has worked since 2016 in dialogue with indigenous Ainu elders, to the course of the River Great Ouse, which runs through the drained wetlands of Eastern England, site of Austin’s recent research and home to generations of her family.
Food, wetlands and bodies combine in sculpture, installation, photography and video by three artists concerned with the lived experience of the landscape, the body as a site of knowledge production. A concern with narrative leads us to reflect on the imaginative space of nature: how this can be a place of resistance in a time of extractive industry and the politics of exclusion – how listening, looking, tasting and feeling create kinship relations that trouble the human/nonhuman binary.
The exhibition, featured in the Guardian Arts Weekly Newsletter, is open to the public on Saturdays until 24 May 2025, 10am until 4pm.
Exhibition
28 April – 24 May 2025
Open to public Saturday 10am-4pm or by appointment
Private View
Thursday 1 May 2025
6-8pm
*Images courtesy of the artists, Bosse and Baum, and Flowers Gallery
