Resonant Bodies

"Resonant Bodies" is an exhibition that focuses on the oft-overlooked and undervalued social art, a medium closely entwined with notions of care, community and tender labour. The exhibition features five socially-engaged artists, whose practices map the body as a site of vulnerability, politics and collective meaning-making. Spanning video, installation, performative, somatic and participatory structures, "Resonant Bodies" investigates how personal, private experiences – of grief, care, visibility, shame, intimacy, memory, love and passion – resonate outward into the interconnected web of social space.

While the body has been largely treated as a representational subject in the canon of art history, the works in "Resonant Bodies" engage with embodiment as a product of cultural, institutional, linguistic and bureaucratic systems, which shape how various bodies are moulded, silenced, and regulated. Through unconventional formats, such as vocalisation, breaking bread, practising care, artistic activism, moving together as a collective body, and bringing the invisible into…