EXHIBITION

A Kingdom of Hours

Gasworks, Ealing, London, 06/23/2016 - 09/04/2016

155 Vauxhall Street

ABOUT

A Kingdom of Hours explores how artists disrupt sequential time – from biological rhythms to historical chronologies – to undermine rigid structures of belonging. Videos, woodcuts and sculptures by William E Jones, Emilia Prieto Tugores and Osías Yanov disentangle queer or feminist affects from their present tense through strategies of repetition, fragmentation and anachronism, while videos and works on paper by Peggy Ahwesh, Teresa Burga and Wilson Díaz reflect on how human life cycles are socially conditioned. Presented alongside sculptures and textile pieces by Nilbar Güre?, Priscilla Monge and Candice Lin and Patrick Staff that explore gendered forms of cultural assimilation and societal expectation, these works emphasise material and symbolic experiences of plasticity, fluidity and mutability. Together they compose rhythms of empathy and desire that question how subjectivities are constrained by periodisation, patriarchy and capitalism.

A Kingdom of Hours is indebted to queer theorist Elizabeth Freeman’s writings on ‘chrononormativity’ – a process of standardisation through which societies’ rhythms are internalised by their constituents like city smog – and ‘erotohistoriography’, or a deeply affective approach to history rooted in desire. The exhibition brings together artists from different generations and cultural backgrounds to consider the biopolitical implications of these terms and ‘chronodissident’ strategies and forms.

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APT ARTISTS ON VIEW

Nilbar Güres

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