CURRENT EXHIBITION
SPACE: Laurie Kang | Mother Always Has a Mother: Wheat
30 September 2022 - 26 January 2023
Mercer Union’s SPACE billboard commission has invited artist Laurie Kang for its 2022–23 season for a yearlong series titled, Mother Always Has a Mother. Known for her sprawling installations and distinctive material repertoire, Kang’s practice is a dialogue with entropy. Elegantly disordered and richly layered, her site-sensitive works explore the relational bonds between time, personal […]
CURRENT EXHIBITION
fORUM: Resonance and Transmission
17 September 2022 - 19 November 2022
Resonance and Transmission is a multi-part events program informed by Aimée Zito Lema’s embodied entanglements with archival materials. Exploring cultural and artistic responses to recorded histories, practices of appropriation, and corporeal memory, the series asks: What does it mean to resonate with a movement, an artist or an event? What does resonance mean and what […]
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Aimée Zito Lema: Scryer in the Archive
17 September 2022 - 19 November 2022
Opening Reception 16 September 2022 7pm
Throughout her practice, artist Aimée Zito Lema has engaged with questions of social memory and the body as an agent of resistance. Her exhibition at Mercer Union takes up these interests in relation to personal and collective photographic histories, with a particular meditation on how the diasporic experience complicates such categorical boundaries. Moments of protest […]