A month-long programme of exhibitions, events, film screenings and happenings at Bermondsey Project Space celebrating and exploring LGBTQIA+ communities and identities.
Cherry Au Hon I
PEOPLE, PLACE, TAKE UP SPACE
1 – 12 February 2022
EXHIBITION: Gallery 1
PEOPLE, PLACE, TAKE UP SPACE is a solo exhibition by non-binary, Macanese born, photographer Cherry Au Hon I. This project includes images of more than 100 queer people from across Europe and Asia of different ages, races and backgrounds, from accountants and drag kings to tattoo artists and nurses, who are all united in their desire for representation.
Heidi Pearce
LIGHTS ON BLUE DOGS
1 – 12 February
EXHIBITION: Gallery 2
Heidi Pearce is a contemporary artist based in London working with soft sculpture, puppetry and painting. In her exhibition lights on blue dogs Heidi presents a sculptural installation that encourages the viewer to question their tension – or indeed complacency – surrounding overfamiliarity. Rejecting the concept of ‘darkness’, her sculptures source uncanny power through ambiguity and familiarity; awkwardly looming, these forms suggest an uncomfortable, yet energetic, existence.
MassHysteria presents:
A Moment of BLISS
Friday 11 February 6.30 – 9 pm
MOVEMENT AND DANCE LIVE EVENT
MassHysteria presents a night of experiential exhibitionism. Expect interactive, durational performances exploring collective embodiment.
The Voices Film Programme
QUEER PORTRAITS
Saturday 12 February, 4 – 6pm
FILM SCREENING AND TALK
A selection of short films telling nuanced stories of queer identity and comunity. The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with the creative teams.
FIGURE AND GROUND
KV Duong, Radek Husak, Gavin Maughfling and James Robert Morrison
15 – 26 February 2022
EXHIBITION: Gallery 1
Figure and Ground is a group exhibition bringing together works by KV Duong, Radek Husak, Gavin Maughfling and James Robert Morrison.
As a piece of art jargon, Figure and Ground refers to the perception of physical forms. How something, or someone, is distinguished from the context or surrounding in which it appears. But what if that distinction is less clear? What if the context is obscured, or the surroundings turn out to be a construct of imagination?
The artists in Figure and Ground explore real and dreamt spaces as a rebellion against heteronormative environments and present new psychological realities to escape to.
BILL PRYDE
Ecce Homo
15 – 26 February 2022
EXHIBITION: Gallery 2
Printmaker Bill Pryde turns his attention to the male figure. Drawing on classical themes and process-driven explorations of shape and form, these works strike a celebratory tone while deftly demonstrating Pryde’s technical mastery of screen-printing techniques.
The Voices Film Programme
Unearth Me and See Me Wildly Dance
Saturday 19 February, 4 – 6pm
FILM SCREENING AND TALK
Screening of a collaborative art film based on a fantasy queer mythology. Directed by queer and non-binary artists Raechel (Rae) Teitelbaum and Brody Mace-Hopkins. Followed by a talk and Q&A
Archiving Queer History with Laura Migliorino
Wednesday 23 February, 6.30 – 9pm
Talk, Q&A and Film Screening
Academic and Photographer Laura Migliorino presents a talk on her series The Hidden Life of Books and her process of archiving queer histories. The event will also include an opportunity to view Queeroes of London, a film by Junie Lau and Cherry Au Hon I which documents the oral histories of London’s Vibrant queer community.
