REHEARSING BODIES is an exhibition curated by Lucy Grubb taking over CCA’s bathroom with artworks by Lucie McLaughlin, Ebun Sodipo and Francis Whorrall-Campbell. The exhibition reimagines the WC as a space for remaking, practising and rehearsing. Bringing together collage, drawing, and writing, this exhibition interrogates ideas of spatial justice while exploring how we continuously practise existing through rehearsing movement, reclaiming autonomy, and navigating the politics of visibility.
The starting point for REHEARSING BODIES draws from José Esteban Muñoz’s concept of the stage as a “space of potentiality”, considering how we can rehearse, fail, and practise our future selves. In the context of social and political change, this exhibition aims to highlight how systems have historically denied affordable housing, jobs, and pleasure to marginalised bodies while suggesting ways we might remake ourselves in response.
The works by the artists inhabit the bathroom in fragmented, layered forms, echoing the disjointed, nonlinear experience of queer life and navigating how we approach the city. By drawing parallels between the hidden, transient nature of queer bodies in urban spaces, the works occupy and reimagine the toilet as a site of both visibility and resistance. This space becomes a site where queerness can be pieced together, claimed, and reimagined.
This project has been supported by Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry~Lononderry, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, and Jerwood Foundation.
- CCA Derry~Londonderry, 10-12 Artillery Street, Derry, BT48 6RG
- 5 Oct- 05 Nov 2024
More information: https://www.ccadld.org/exhibitions/rehearsing-bodies