DAPHNE WRIGHT: EMOTIONAL ARCHAEOLOGY
Friday 30 September 2016 to Saturday 31 December 2016, 11:00 to 18:00
A major solo exhibition of artist Daphne Wright, curated by Jo Lanyon.
Emotional Archaeology presents a number of key works spanning Daphne Wright’s career, and is the most comprehensive presentation of the artist’s work in the UK to date. Wright has been based in Bristol for nearly two decades, dividing her time between the city and Ireland. Often working from her studio at home, her practice draws on the suburban and the domestic realm to explore complex social issues and our understanding of society. The exhibition includes major sculptural works alongside films, prints, drawings and newly produced works, all of which invite the viewer to consider them on an emotional level.
Over twenty-five years, Wright’s work has been driven by a relentless curiosity in the ways in which materials can express unspoken human preoccupations. The artist often turns to traditional craft and figurative techniques in order to explore intimate and domestic issues such as parenting, ageing, care and our relationship with animals. Simultaneously both exquisite and shocking, in Wright’s work the personal is always political and what seems benign and non-threatening is shadowed by something darker and more troubling.
Emotional Archaeology is curated by Josephine Lanyon and presented alongside an exhibition of the same name at National Trust Tyntesfield (10 September – 20 November), where two installations by Daphne Wright respond to the history of the Victorian Gothic house and estate. The chapel will house filmic portraits of individuals in intensely private moments of prayer and meditation. In contrast, cast and photographic works in the main house examine a history of breeding and lineage. How to get to Tyntesfield
A publication has been produced alongside the exhibition and is available from Arnolfini for a special exhibition price of £14.99), including two interviews with Daphne Wright as well as new essays by Penelope Curtis, Xa Sturgis, and Josephine Lanyon.
Please be aware that gallery one contains sculptures made from the casts of upsetting animals which some children may find upsetting.
Download an exhibition guide.
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