Phoebe Boswell

Phoebe Boswell is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in London. She embraces the fluidity of language and storytelling as a means to unpack the cultural associations with which bodies of water are imbued. Layers of historic violence and trauma attest to how it continues to bear witness to an inequitable society, while its ebb and flow, its surge and swell, posit water as a site for possible renewal, rebirth, reclamation—a healing, holding, place. Photo: Adenike Oke

A still detail of Julianknxx’s artwork “encounter?flee (Jolly)” 2023

Rites of Passage

Rites of Passage, an exhibition at Gagosian, London, explored the concept of “liminal space,” a coinage of the anthropologist Arnold van Gennep, through the work of nineteen contemporary artists who share a history of migration. Here, Péjú Oshin, associate director at Gagosian, London, speaks with Phoebe Boswell, Adelaide Damoah, and Julianknxx about their participation in the exhibition and about the complexities of community, performance, truth, and identity.

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