Birthing Pool // Alice Channer

Opening Night 25 July 5-9pm

// Continues 26 July – 31 Aug Free & Open To All

// Wed-Sat 11-5pm & Until 8pm Thurs // Turf Projects, Whitgift Centre, Croydon CR01UQ

CONTAMINATED, IMPLICATED //

Text by Jes Fernie

How shall we play this? There are a number of options. We can walk through the door, make some small talk, take a leaflet and look at the work. Worry about whether we’re allowed to get into that pool. Or we can put our hands up to the window and maintain a safe distance. No need for conversation or interaction. I do this, but am not satisfied. The glare is too bright and my viewpoint restricted.

// ABOUT ALICE CHANNER Alice Channer is an artist working with sculpture. Her work s t r e t c h e s out, s l o w s down and speeds up industrial and post-industrial production processes to make them visible to herself and to others, and to attune us to the multiple embodiments and disembodiments involved. She imagines her work as a kind of 21st Century Process Art.

She has exhibited widely over the last two decades, including institutional exhibitions at: Tate Britain, London, UK; Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, UK (2019); Museum Morsbroich, Germany; Whitechapel Gallery, UK; Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK; La Panacée MoCo, Montpellier, France (2018); Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA and Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany (2017); Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (2016); Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Public Art Fund, New York; Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA (2015); Fridericianum, Kassel; Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, both Germany and Künstlerhaus Graz, Austria (2014); The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire; the 55th Venice Biennale, Italy and Kunstverein Freiburg, Germany (2013) and South London Gallery; Tate Britain, both UK (2012). ➮ Find out more about Alice Channer at alicechanner.com