Our pick of current exhibitions, throughout the UK and beyond, that we're not involved in but would highly recommend. Follow our recommendations on Twitter using #FVUrecommends
Landscape Imaginary: Expanded Research Event
Join artists Daniel & Clara on a journey through their research into the relationship between place and the imagination. With Ben Rivers, Andrew & Eden Kötting, Susan Owens, & Stella Keen
Online event, 26 June 2021
Ajamu: Archival Sensoria
A solo exhibition of new and archival works that spotlight Black Queer legacies in Britain by photographer, artist-scholar, archive curator and radical sex activist Ajamu X, curated by Languid Hands.
Cubitt, 20 May - 11 July 2021
Amartey Golding, Bring Me To Heal
Drawing upon ancient histories, myth, storytelling and craft, ‘Bring Me To Heal’ follows a nomadic character who we see wandering the museum after hours. Coming across an ornate knotted garment made from human hair, he witnesses the birth of an elemental deity-like figure.
V&A Friday Late on YouTube
TRANSMISSIONS: episode 4 by not/nowhere
The Fourth episode of TRANSMISSIONS will be by not/nowhere broadcasting on Wednesday 16th June. TRANSMISSIONS is an online platform established in 2020 that commissions artists to share their work within a classic DIY TV show format.
Broadcasting 16th June 9PM BST on transmissions.tv
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IWOW: I Walk on Water, Khalik Allah
The new diary film from New York-based director and photographer Khalik Allah returns to 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem, the same intersection at which Allah has based much of his work in recent years.
In virtual cinemas and on demand from 26 February 2021
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D/deaf Artists’ Film Commissions
At LUX, a new series of film commissions reflects on the possibilities of a Deaf artists’ cinema.
Image: Nina Thomas, Silence, 2020, film still. Courtesy: the artist and LUX, London
LUX
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Mattflix
MattFlix is a monthly series of online projects which began at mattsgallery.org in April 2020. Image: Sally O'Reilly.
Matt's Gallery
Tina Campt: The Slow Lives of Still Moving Images
Tina Campt expands on her coined term of 'Black visual frequency', which was the starting point for Nadeem Din-Gabisi's MASS, in this talk 'The Slow Lives of Still Moving Images'.
Nottingham Contemporary, via YouTube
Reflections from Home No.5: Sohrab Hura, Delhi, Indi
Kettle’s Yard has been asking artists to offer their reflections from home, through images, text and film. The latest artist to respond is Sohrab Hura, who shares photographs from his rooftop in Delhi, India.
Kettle's Yard
Hu Wei: Butter Lamps
A young itinerant photographer and his assistant suggest to tibetan nomads to photograph them in front of various backgrounds.
Dryden Goodwin: Alongside
Alongside is a closely observed portrait of a care worker as he builds supportive relationships with three vulnerable clients with severe physical disabilities or autism.
Work Projects
Paul Rooney: Still at Large (The Creeping Things Cut)
A disturbing male figure is on the run from an unspoken crime; yet he is, in turn, on the hunt for something or someone.
Berwick Visual Arts