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Notes on Labour & Longing
Notes on Labour & Longing brings together a series of Richard Hancock’s photographic works on - and with - paper, that stage the body and its traces as material encounters with labour and desire. Creased papers, crumpled bedsheets and cast-off tarpaulins become poetic signifiers for lives lived, endured, and sometimes left behind. The works on show in this exhibition lightly carry the weight of the everyday, while holding the mass of abstract longings.
Richard Hancock
Notes on Labour & Longing
4. April - 3. May, 2025
Oberwelt e.V.
Reinsburgstr. 93
70197 Stuttgart
DE
An Empire: A Performance-in-Print in 7 Acts
Richard Hancock & Litsa Kiousi
Embossed cardboard box containing 22 photographic images, a folded print, paper booklet, china paper wrapping, string, imitation gold leaf, and the ashes of burned paper boats. Edition of 200. 16,5cm x 23cm x 2,5cm.
Investigating the notion of the ‘papers of the empire’ as the material through which empires have commonly attained, consolidated, and perpetuated their powers and legacies, Hancock and Kiousi have developed a ‘performance- in-print’ in seven acts.
The seven acts of An Empire unfold over a series of 22 photographic scenes, and a text — written in Ojibwe — by the artist Isaiah Lopaz. Each scene holds a moment of knowledge, longing, and desire that may be pulled from the ashes of history as a meditation on loss, damage and deception.
An Empire is available directly from the artists in Berlin.
50€ plus shipping.
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