The first Spin event of the year will see us heading to Summerhall for their group show Mount Strange and the Temple of Fame. In the exhibition, four major female artists investigate and uncover strange landscapes and the power of myth-making and folklore. The artists research, reclaim, reveal and represent semi-imagined old pasts, new futures, and truth.
In her film Daedalus, Victoria Clare Bernie explores conspiracy and myth surrounding Rudolf Hess’ failed flight, on 10 May 1941, to Dungavel House, the summer residence of the Duke of Hamilton in South Lanarkshire (now an immigration detention facility).
Madrid-based artist Maria Gimeno’s Queridas Viejas (Dear Old Mistresses), restores women artists to their rightful place in art history. Queridas Viejas is currently showing at the Prado Museum in Madrid.
In Hamsafar (Fellow Traveller), Mina Heydari-Waite investigates how Iranian cultural histories, traditions and experiences are relayed and how diaspora artists collect, reassemble and refabricate cultural cues and narratives to create new settings for themselves.
Alix Villanueva, a multi-media, Edinburgh-based artist and cosmoecologist, displays in her work a range of modern mythmaking, merging sculptural elements, image-making and rituals to explore and unpack relationships with other beings.
The exhibition includes drawings, film, sound, objects, installation and performance, across six gallery rooms. We’ll be joined by the exhibition’s curator Wendy Law and the artist Alix Villanueva.
