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MIRROR presents Ritual Touch
Arts University Plymouth
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AT
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MIRROR presents Ritual Touch, a group exhibition curated by talking on corners - Lorna Rose and Ella S. Mills.
‘The idea of the work, the accumulation of the materials, the putting them together, the sharing of a work are all part of a ritual. This process of objectification is…purification. Once in the world, the artwork can become part of someone else’s ritual.’ - Betye Saar
‘Ritual Touch’ brings together three artists for the first time, creating new conversations to which you are invited. Central to the exhibition is the materiality of touch and the significance of time and rhythm in the ritual of creating.
The artists’ repetitive and slow creative practices become ritual; an act of making that shifts from a doing to a being with, where touch transcends the material and exists also as energy.
Monica-Shanta, Gladys Paulus and Ingrid Pollard and share a quiet depth to their practice, calling on rhythmic traditions, rooting human presence and interaction in the natural world. A combination of mixed media installation and assemblage, the artists collapse historical and personal pasts, bringing to the fore a resonance of being imbued in the objects through touch. The embodied pasts of these objects release a power and a presence, where the ritual can become our own.
