Jade Montserrat creates works on paper and performances exploring race, the body and language. She has made a major new work which will enter the city’s collection. As part of this process, we have created an active research space, showing her previous works on paper alongside artworks from the collection. Part gallery and part studio, we are also presenting her notebooks, research, and art materials, which give us a unique insight into her artistic process and creative thinking.
Constellations: Care & Resistance references the star clusters and patterns of constellations that have often been understood as a way for past cultures to explore multiple stories, share memories and spark curiosity. This creative constellation seeks to do the same and expands the conversation about Montserrat’s practice to include works by other artists in our collection, Claudette Johnson, Mark Titchner and Ian Hamilton Finlay. The title also relates to the idea that care can be an act of resisting oppression and silence as demonstrated by the work of these artists. Montserrat is interested in structures of care in institutions, initiating urgent conversations about how works of art and people are looked after.
Montserrat interrogated the collection as she created her new work. Constellations: Care & Resistance is not an end...