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Home Truths exhibition
December 2024, Norwich University of the Arts, PS5
Home (My Mother) Megan Soul, December 2024Acrylic and chalk pastel on raw canvas
- the truth
the real facts about a situation, event, or person (Cambridge
Dictionary)
Welcome!
Make sure to wipe your shoes on the way in.
Consider
your own “home”; What – or who is that? What does it look like, taste
like, is it warm? This exhibition seeks to create a space allowing you to
consider your own “home”. The eclectic living room is filled with created and
curated memorabilia drawing from the artists’ own recollections and memories
relating to “home”. An innominate board game, a cup spilling words, textiles
teeming with iconography and place, portraits of familiar and unfamiliar
faces.
Rather
than attempting to define “home” as a singular concept, it has been considered
that all artists have differing notions of what this means to them. As a
result, this exhibition has become an extensive collection of works tied
together by the space they are situated within. Home Truths offers
insight into the true “home” of the artists involved and accumulates these outcomes
into an atemporal space; A corner room oozing sentimentality, sense of
familiarity, a certain level of uncanny.
“Home”
here has been broadly considered as a feeling, rather than a building; as a period
of time, as familial or as a means to explore political notions of the domestic
sphere. Home can be ritualistic, material, a place, it can sound beautiful.
Above all home is personal.
Swill the idea of home around your head like
the tea leaves at the bottom of your cup, brandy in a bulbous glass. Close your
eyes and listen.
the real facts about a situation, event, or person (Cambridge Dictionary)
Welcome! Make sure to wipe your shoes on the way in.
Consider your own “home”; What – or who is that? What does it look like, taste like, is it warm? This exhibition seeks to create a space allowing you to consider your own “home”. The eclectic living room is filled with created and curated memorabilia drawing from the artists’ own recollections and memories relating to “home”. An innominate board game, a cup spilling words, textiles teeming with iconography and place, portraits of familiar and unfamiliar faces.
Rather than attempting to define “home” as a singular concept, it has been considered that all artists have differing notions of what this means to them. As a result, this exhibition has become an extensive collection of works tied together by the space they are situated within. Home Truths offers insight into the true “home” of the artists involved and accumulates these outcomes into an atemporal space; A corner room oozing sentimentality, sense of familiarity, a certain level of uncanny.
“Home” here has been broadly considered as a feeling, rather than a building; as a period of time, as familial or as a means to explore political notions of the domestic sphere. Home can be ritualistic, material, a place, it can sound beautiful. Above all home is personal.
Swill the idea of home around your head like the tea leaves at the bottom of your cup, brandy in a bulbous glass. Close your eyes and listen.