Dates:
11 Dec 2018 - 24 Dec 2019
People:
Location:
The Art House, Wakefield
ICF collaborated with the Art House in Wakefield to facilitate a curatorial residency for curator Sunil Shah to work with international artists-in-residence Cole Ndelu and Dimple B. Shah and curate a final exhibition of the work they produced while in Wakefield in 2019.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The current social and political conditions have the ability to undermine our resolve and break our spirit. In the gallery, a makeshift laboratory is presented as a site for self-reflection and care. Artists Cole Ndelu and Dimple B. Shah arrive in Wakefield as artistic explorers from afar, they bring with them experimental approaches and metaphysical ideas that may help us.
Ndelu addresses intimacy and close personal relations through photography. She works with layers of materiality and extends the photographic plane beyond its two dimensions. Her work suggests a re(disc)overy of the self in light of disembodiment brought about by our social and online personas.
Shah offers techniques and rituals through nature, materials and alchemy. Processes of healing and self-care can be meditated upon through her responses to Wakefield’s surroundings and through processes carried out in The Art House’s printmaking workshop. Her work is finally realised in the lab, and during performances where she takes shamanistic form offering public consultations on self-preservation.
The exhibition took place at the Art House from 31 October to 24 December 2019.
Sunil’s Exhibition Essay
Cindy Sissokho joined ICF and the Art House as an external mentor to support a final review and evaluation of the project with participating curator Sunil Shah.
People:
ICF collaborated with the Art House in Wakefield to facilitate a curatorial residency for curator Sunil Shah to work with international artists-in-residence Cole Ndelu and Dimple B. Shah and curate a final exhibition of the work they produced while in Wakefield in 2019.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
The current social and political conditions have the ability to undermine our resolve and break our spirit. In the gallery, a makeshift laboratory is presented as a site for self-reflection and care. Artists Cole Ndelu and Dimple B. Shah arrive in Wakefield as artistic explorers from afar, they bring with them experimental approaches and metaphysical ideas that may help us.
Ndelu addresses intimacy and close personal relations through photography. She works with layers of materiality and extends the photographic plane beyond its two dimensions. Her work suggests a re(disc)overy of the self in light of disembodiment brought about by our social and online personas.
Shah offers techniques and rituals through nature, materials and alchemy. Processes of healing and self-care can be meditated upon through her responses to Wakefield’s surroundings and through processes carried out in The Art House’s printmaking workshop. Her work is finally realised in the lab, and during performances where she takes shamanistic form offering public consultations on self-preservation.
The exhibition took place at the Art House from 31 October to 24 December 2019.
Sunil’s Exhibition Essay
Cindy Sissokho joined ICF and the Art House as an external mentor to support a final review and evaluation of the project with participating curator Sunil Shah.
Dates:
11 Dec 2018 - 24 Dec 2019
Location:
The Art House, Wakefield
