ELEVENSES

Elevenses is a group exhibition exploring ritual in all its forms. Since time immemorial, ritual has been central to human life. Religion, politics, popular culture; all these are accretions of ritual built over varied and overlapping timescales, conspiring to drive humanity forward, producing novel social and cultural forms that we perceive as change.

Yet, within living memory there has been an undeniable shift. With the development of communications technology, and the rise of the internet, ritual in the twenty-first century is networked to an absolutely unprecedented degree. 

From ancient rituals which have taken new shape in the age of the internet, to new rituals designed to alleviate the anxieties of life in the 21st century, Five Fold have invited artists to share their experiences and observations of this uniquely human behaviour. 

Through their work, and complemented by a series of workshops, visitors to Elevenses will be led to ponder the place that ritual takes in their own lives, and how it captures both the mundanity and wonder of being alive.”

The artists are:

Hannah Aarow, Ben Adamson, Sharon Anatole, Taja Lewis Boodie, Yuma Burgess, Luyin Cao, Orla Carolin, Sarah Catterall, Jiayi Chen, Leon Clowes, Kofi Couston, Ethan & Tom, Elif Gonen, Pietro Gorini, Kandre Hassan, Odie-Grace Kalu, Julian Konuk, Patricia Wanying Lolu, Beth McAlester, Kira McCarthy, Cosima von Moreau, Samuel Clarice Mui, Okocha Obasi, Devika Pararasasinghe, Shunny & Taewan, Sid & Jim, Jack Sproston, Rachel Stevenson, Virginie Tan, Todd Tourso, Avery Worsley

Curated by Five Fold