CASTLES OF SAND

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INTRODUCTION :

‘Castles of Sand’ at Anima Mundi, coinciding in part with the 2021 G7 World Leaders Summit taking place less than a mile from the gallery, includes artists from the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa. It offers a unique opportunity for a poetic space to meditate on key issues facing our species and through intricate interconnection our entire planet, at a pivotal turning point in human history.


Participating Artists :

Paul Benney, Gabrielle K Brown, Jim Carter, Mat Chivers, Gabriel Tendai Choto, Kate Clark, Phoebe Cummings, David Kemp, Laura Ford, Rebecca Harper, Marcus Harvey, Youki Hirakawa, Henry Hussey, Sax Impey, Mark Jenkin & Bicep, Arthur Lanyon, Andrew Litten, Shiri Mordechay, Richard Nott, John Robinson, Tim Shaw, Roger Thorp, David Kim Whittaker, Joy Wolfenden Brown, Carlos Zapata

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“They wept for humanity, those two, not for themselves. They could not bear that this should be the end. Ere silence was completed their hearts were opened, and they knew what had been important on the earth. Man, the flower of all flesh, the noblest of all creatures visible, man who had once made god in his image, and had mirrored his strength on the constellations, beautiful naked man was dying, strangled in the garments that he had woven. Century after century had he toiled, and here was his reward. Truly the garment had seemed heavenly at first, shot with colours of culture, sewn with the threads of self-denial. And heavenly it had been so long as man could shed it at will and live by the essence that is his soul, and the essence, equally divine, that is his body. The sin against the body - it was for that they wept in chief; the centuries of wrong against the muscles and the nerves, and those five portals by which we can alone apprehend - glozing it over with talk of evolution, until the body was white pap, the home of ideas as colourless, last sloshy stirrings of a spirit that had grasped the stars. ”


E.M. Forster, ’The Machine Stops’, 1909

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“I am quite confident that even as the oceans boil, and the hurricanes beat violently against our once safe shores, and the air sweats with the heat of impending doom, and our fists protest the denial of climate justice, that there is a path to take that has nothing to do with victory or defeat: a place we do not yet know the coordinates to; a question we do not yet know how to ask. The point of the departed arrow is not merely to pierce the bullseye and carry the trophy: the point of the arrow is to sing the wind and remake the world in the brevity of flight. There are things we must do, sayings we must say, thoughts we must think, that look nothing like the images of success that have so thoroughly possessed our visions of justice.

May this new decade be remembered as the decade of the strange path, of the third way, of the broken binary, of the traversal disruption, the kairotic moment, the posthuman movement for emancipation, the gift of disorientation that opened up new places of power, and of slow limbs. May this decade bring more than just solutions, more than just a future - may it bring words we don't know yet, and temporalities we have not yet inhabited. May we be slower than speed could calculate, and swifter than the pull of the gravity of words can incarcerate. And may we be visited so thoroughly, and met in wild places so overwhelmingly, that we are left undone. Ready for composting. Ready for the impossible.

Welcome to the decade of the fugitive. “


Adebayo Akomolafe