Exhibitions
Nine Days: An exhibition by Yael Roberts
An exhibition by Yael Roberts from their residency at the Fish Factory Arts, exploring climate destruction, grief, beauty and their Jewish ancestry.
"...What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be..."
-Naomi Shihab Nye
The nine days are a period of grieving in mourning as part of the Jewish lunar calendar each summer. Marking the destruction of the temple, they are a time for mourning and introspection. The work uses these days as a jumping off point to mark other kinds of mourning and periods of destruction.
Grief washes over us like waves. It drains us, wipes us clean, returning to us and us to, ebbing, flowing.
These days are 9, they are time spent in Penryn, printing daily the sounds of the heart and rustlings of the body. Heartbreak. Soulbreak. Bodybreak. Earthbreak. Wavebreak.
These days there is grief, for death, for climate destruction, impending extinction of our species, our beautiful places, separateness from loved ones, oppression, capitalism, desecration. We can hold it, or we can release it back, allowing it to change us and to flow through us. Deep in the layers, deep in the water, a long way in and a long way through. Held in our hands. Carefully saved.
The exhibition of large prints and objects will constitute a temple of sorts, a ritual space. Created over nine days in residency at the Fish Factory, the artist invites viewers to add their own relics to the space as the exhibition will change and grow throughout its duration, creating a memorial to that which has been lost and proposing an emergence into new landscapes.
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Yael Roberts is a mixed media artist who body-prints from found objects to create installations exploring impermanence. She often uses her work to measure periods of time spent in real or mythic place. Recent residencies include Cove Park, Helensburgh, Scotland, and Listhus, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, she lives and works in London. Instagram: @yael_roberts
www.yaelroberts.com
19-23rd August PV 18th Aug 6pm
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be..."
-Naomi Shihab Nye
The nine days are a period of grieving in mourning as part of the Jewish lunar calendar each summer. Marking the destruction of the temple, they are a time for mourning and introspection. The work uses these days as a jumping off point to mark other kinds of mourning and periods of destruction.
Grief washes over us like waves. It drains us, wipes us clean, returning to us and us to, ebbing, flowing.
These days are 9, they are time spent in Penryn, printing daily the sounds of the heart and rustlings of the body. Heartbreak. Soulbreak. Bodybreak. Earthbreak. Wavebreak.
These days there is grief, for death, for climate destruction, impending extinction of our species, our beautiful places, separateness from loved ones, oppression, capitalism, desecration. We can hold it, or we can release it back, allowing it to change us and to flow through us. Deep in the layers, deep in the water, a long way in and a long way through. Held in our hands. Carefully saved.
The exhibition of large prints and objects will constitute a temple of sorts, a ritual space. Created over nine days in residency at the Fish Factory, the artist invites viewers to add their own relics to the space as the exhibition will change and grow throughout its duration, creating a memorial to that which has been lost and proposing an emergence into new landscapes.
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Yael Roberts is a mixed media artist who body-prints from found objects to create installations exploring impermanence. She often uses her work to measure periods of time spent in real or mythic place. Recent residencies include Cove Park, Helensburgh, Scotland, and Listhus, Ólafsfjörður, Iceland. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, she lives and works in London. Instagram: @yael_roberts
www.yaelroberts.com
19-23rd August PV 18th Aug 6pm
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