Testament is a large-scale group exhibition across the entirety of the CCA building, staged in response to this tumultuous period, and includes 47 exceptional artists who are in or from the UK, and have contributed to this conversation about what it means to think about monuments today.
Entering 2022, as the UK navigates seismic shifts triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, environmental crises and Brexit, the role of monuments has been brought into sharp focus, becoming the centre of public debate. The monument has become symbolic in its representation of a troubled history, and the discussion of a redemptive future.
Open until 3rd April 2022
. Artists have been invited to make proposals that consider monuments – their removal and installation – and what it might mean to rethink the idea of the monument at all. Are they defunct, illusory statements of permanence, continuity, and manifestations of power? Whose narratives do they preserve, and whose do they suppress? Can they still play a vital role in mediating communal grief and providing a locus for memory? Is there space for them to be re-envisioned?
Testament is a large-scale group exhibition across the entirety of the CCA building, staged in response to this tumultuous period, and includes 47 exceptional artists who are in or from the UK, and have contributed to this conversation about what it means to think about monuments today. Artists have been invited to make proposals that consider monuments – their removal and installation – and what it might mean to rethink the idea of the monument at all. Are they defunct, illusory statements of permanence, continuity, and manifestations of power? Whose narratives do they preserve, and whose do they suppress? Can they still play a vital role in mediating communal grief and providing a locus for memory? Is there space for them to be re-envisioned?
The artists are: Saelia Aparicio, Phyllida Barlow, Alvaro Barrington, JJ Chan,Monster Chetwynd, Rabiya Choudhry, Jeremy Deller, AdhamFaramawy, Navine G.Khan- ossos, Ryan Gander, Carl Gent, Holly Hendry, Roger Hiorns, Sam Keogh,Scott King, Phillip Lai, Lawrence Lek, Ghislaine Leung, Lloyd Corporation, PaulMaheke, Stuart Middleton, Oscar Murillo, Nashashibi/Skaer, Olu Ogunnaike,Hardeep Pandhal, Yuri Pattison, Elizabeth Price, Laure Prouvost, Aaron Ratajczyk, Tanoa Sasraku, SERAFINE1369, Tai Shani, Peter Spanjer, Jay Tan, Tenant of Culture, Edward Thomasson, Jala Wahid, Mark Wallinger, Dominic Watson, Alfie White, Gray Wielebinski, Bedwyr Williams, Cerith Wyn Evans, Zadie Xa& Benito Mayor Vallejo, and Abbas Zahedi.
The submissions incorporate notes and sketches, drawings, poems, instructions, installations, sculptures, paintings, films, and performances.
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