The Baltic Centre for Modern Artwork (BALTIC) presents Hew Locke’s “The Procession.” The set up might be on view from February 18, 2022, to June 11, 2023. The Baltic Centre for Modern Artwork is positioned on South Shore Highway, Gateshead, England.
A procession is a component and parcel of the cycle of life; folks collect and transfer collectively to have fun, worship, protest, mourn, escape and even to higher themselves. That is the guts of Hew Locke’s bold new undertaking, The Procession, commissioned by Tate and initially introduced in Tate Britain.
The Procession invitations guests to ‘mirror on the cycles of historical past, and the ebb and circulate of cultures, folks and finance and energy.’ Within the set up Locke says he ‘makes hyperlinks with the historic after-effects of the sugar enterprise, and revisits his creative journey up to now, together with for instance work with statues, share certificates, cardboard, rising sea ranges, Carnival, and the army.
All through, guests will see figures who journey by means of house and time. Right here, they carry historic and cultural baggage, from proof of worldwide monetary and violent colonial management embellished on their garments and banners, alongside highly effective photographs of a few of the disappearing colonial structure of Locke’s childhood in Guyana. The set up takes inspiration from actual occasions and histories however total, the figures invite us to stroll alongside them, into an enlarged imaginative and prescient of an imagined future.
Initiated and produced by Tate and curated by Elena Crippa, Senior Curator, Trendy and Modern British Artwork and Clarrie Wallis, former Senior Curator, Modern British Artwork with Bilal Akkouche, Assistant Curator, Modern British Artwork, Hannah Marsh, Curatorial Assistant and Dana Moreno, Curatorial Administrator.
For extra info, see https://baltic.artwork/whats-on/exhibitions/hew-locke
[Installation view of Hew Locke The Procession 2022 at Tate Britain (22 March 2022 – 22 January 2023). Photo © Tate (Joe Humphrys)]