ALICE BLACK is delighted to announce ‘Fuego de Tierra (Earth Fire)’ which will preview at the gallery’s London space in Fitzrovia on Wednesday 17th April from 6pm.
Bee Beardsworth’s curatorial debut exhibition brings together the work of nine contemporary artists working across a variety of material disciplines; Carlota Bulgari / Rachel Bungey / El Hoskyns-Abrahall / Anna-Lena Krause / Julie Maurin / Amber Pinkerton / Andrés Sanjuan / Penny Slinger and André Teixeira. Presented alongside the exhibition will be a unique programme of music, dance & movement by participating contributors; Anna-Lena Krause / Bee Beardsworth / Dafni Krazoudi / LORELEI / James Massiah.
‘Fuego de Tierra (Earth Fire)’ is the manifestation of a burning curiosity to explore temporal topography as a site of sacrality, genesis, protest and discovery. How can we imagine a transcendental embodiment under the pressure and violence of the present moment through creation that enacts a transmutation of innate ancient knowledge and a vision of a utopian future? Paradoxical paradigms are alchemised into something unknowable but universal through shared expression. Desire, suffering, lust, loss and love are fused and bound through a corporeal record of the subconscious, intertwined with memory and emotion. We choose to see the fleeting potential for a changed world through the cracks in our assumed reality. We resist, fertilising the future through ritualistic fervour and planting ourselves in the decay with the flowers, the weeds and the dirt.
"Shadows draw across darkening corners in a world unsettling yet familiar. You’ve been here before; between dream and wake, in the echoing of your footsteps on wet concrete as street lights reflect off rain-sheened pavements at 4am. It is within the Dionysian extraction of the self, refracted through time and space, between what is known and what could be. We lose ourselves body to body as sound reverberates through the walls and sweat drips from the ceiling. We find ourselves in the dirt and dust, conjuring from the earth, drawing strength from a belonging that permeates your being but transcends a name. We find hope through the fracturing of a reality; another place all our own, waiting on the other side. There is a smouldering below your feet that never goes out, waiting, wanting.”
~ Bee Beardsworth ~
Works exhibited:
‘Milena’s alignment’ 2024
Digital C-Type print
50 x 40cm
Edition 5 + 2 AP
‘Walandi’s delight’ 2023
Digital C-Type print
66 x 50 cm
Edition 5 + 2 AP
‘No winners’ 2023
Digital C-Type print 50 x 40 cm
Edition 5 + 2 AP
‘Mwah’ 2023
Fine Art Pigment on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl 21 x 17cm
Edition 5 + 2 AP
‘Amistad en la Chopera’ 2023 Digital C-Type print
71.4 x 50 cm
Edition 5 + 2 AP
