Blain|Southern, London
Join us on Tuesday 28 November 6-8pm for the Private View of Come Fresh Hell or Fresh High Water, the second exhibition in Blain|Southern’s Lodger series.
Curator Tom Morton has invited artist Sophie Jung to develop a new sculptural installation, accompanied by a performance that exists as both a live event and a looping video work. For the exhibition, Jung will transform Blain|Southern’s lower gallery into an environment that recalls at once a bunker, an ice cellar, a Brechtian stage set, and a dressing room. Scale, here, is subject to sudden glitches, and the most mundane of objects – coffee mugs, shower curtains, hat stands – hum with histories, ironies, and a simmering sense of fury.
Jung is a storyteller. In her sculptural installations – and the performances and texts that attend them – she weaves free-wheeling, deeply idiosyncratic, and sharply funny narratives, which draw on everything from pop culture to philosophy, the idlest of thoughts to the most heartfelt of convictions.
Private View:
Tuesday 28 November, 6-8pm, with live performance from 6.30pm
Further performances:
Saturday 16 December 2017, 5pm
Saturday 6 January 2018, 5pm
Saturday 13 January 2018, 5pm
Places are limited, RSVP is advised
Click here to download the Private View invitation
A publication accompanying the exhibition, with texts by Sophie Jung and Tom Morton, will be available from 16 December 2017.
About Lodger
Lodger is a series of exhibitions at Blain|Southern, conceived by the writer, independent curator, and Contributing Editor for frieze magazine, Tom Morton. Running concurrent to the exhibitions in the central space, Lodger expands Blain|Southern’s programme into new territories, often spotlighting a younger generation of artists.
