Performance
Adelaide Damoah
Arachne: Rebirthing Dislocated Cultures
Thursday, April 27, 2023, 8pm
Gagosian, Britannia Street, London
Join Gagosian for an interactive performance with Adelaide Damoah inside Rites of Passage at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, which features work by the artist, to mark the exhibition’s closing on April 29, 2023. Participants will be invited to visit the oracular cave of Arachne-Damoah and accompany this spider-human hybrid on a visceral rite of passage. This audiovisual journey, which features an original sound piece by Damoah and Liz Gre, will interrogate the history of colonialism with the intention of unlocking new modes of understanding.
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Artwork © Adelaide Damoah. Photo: Femelle Studios, London
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