Generations | Talks & Events

CURATOR TOURS | MONDAYS AT 13.00 | EAST WING GALLERIES | FREE | NO BOOKING REQUIRED
Join the curators of GENERATIONS: Connecting Across Time and Place at Somerset House in the East Wing Galleries for a tour of the show. This will be a great chance to hear more about the works and also the curatorial process behind the exhibition.

Tours will occur on the following dates:

Mon 10 Jun
Mon 17 Jun
Mon 24 Jun
Mon 01 Jul
 

ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION: APPAU JNR BOAKYE-YIADOM AND HARDEEP PANDHAL | THU 20 JUN, 18.30 - 20.30 | THE COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART, VERNON SQUARE | FREE | BOOKING REQUIRED

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Artists Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom and Hardeep Pandhal will come together to discuss their work in relation to the exhibition 'GENERATIONS: Connecting Across Time and Place'. The talk will explore the ways in which both artists’ work challenges wider social and cultural preconceptions. In his video installation, 'Plantain Drop', Boakye-Yiadom explores the hybridity of everyday cultural references. Pandhal’s work, 'Baba Deep Thing by Mum', reimagines the story of a Sikh martyr in the form of a textile knitted by the artist’s mother. The discussion will focus on the ways in which the two artists –both born in the mid-80s – have been influenced by other generations, creating work that speaks to contemporary experiences.

The talk will be moderated by MA Curating the Art Museum student, Debbie Meniru.

ARTIST TALK: ALEJANDRA CARLES-TOLRA | SAT 22 JUN, 16.00 | EAST WING GALLERIES | FREE | NO BOOKING REQUIRED

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Alejandra Carles-Tolra will give an Artist Talk in front of her photograph 'Untitled' from the series 'Where We Belong'. The series is a body of work commissioned in 2017 through the Jerwood/ Photoworks Awards exploring themes of belonging, femininity and escapism through a portrayal of Jane Austen devotees. Alejandra Carles-Tolra is interested in examining the threshold between fiction and nonfiction, past and present. Her goal is to invite the viewer to question where the performance starts and ends, and to challenge where the limits between reality and imagination lie.

Alejandra’s talk will be followed by a Q&A.
 

POETRY READING: RAYMOND ANTROBUS | SUN 23 JUN, 16.00 | EAST WING GALLERIES | FREE | NO BOOKING REQUIRED

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Raymond Antrobus, the first poet to win the Rathbones Folio prize, will be reading from his latest poetry collection The Perseverance. Ranging across history and continents, The Perseverance operates in the spaces in-between and creates new, hybrid territories. Kaveh Akbar says, ‘it’s magic, the way this poet is able to bring together so much—deafness, race, masculinity, a mother’s dementia, a father’s demise—with such dexterity.’ Raymond’s words will create a meaningful and emotive dialogue with the artworks in GENERATIONS: Connecting Across Time and Place.