We’re looking forward to welcoming Phoebe Boswell to talk about her practice in relation to resilience and radical care.

Underpinned by a transient and diasporic consciousness, Phoebe Boswell’s interdisciplinary practice speaks from the porous space between here and there. She works across media, centring drawing but spanning animation, sound, video, writing, interactivity, performance and chorality. This tends to culminate in layered installations, which affect and are affected by the environments they occupy, by time, the serendipity of loops, and the presence of the audience, attempting always to create space for us to live freely, with dignity, in spite of the oppressive systems that seek to bind us all. Aesthetics of figuration and representation through the radical imaginary of Black feminisms become tools for contemplating the body as world, worldmaking, rather than merely as object to be gazed at. Artmaking becomes a political act of service to community, where labour-intensive drawing practices, immersive technologies, and calls for collective participation denote a commitment of care for how we see – or fail to see, to sense – ourselves and each other; how we grieve, how we love, how we rest, how we heal, how we protest, how we remember the past in order to imagine the future.
 

ACCESS INFORMATION
This talk will take place on Zoom, using video & audio. You’ll be invited to participate (should you wish to), either by voice or text chat, during the Q and A session after the main talk. You are very welcome to bring a support worker with you to the session (just let us know by email after you book so we can share the Zoom link with them too). There is live on screen captioning.

Please let us know if you have any access needs by 2 February 2021, via info@camp-plymouth.org, so we can make arrangements

ABOUT PHOEBE
Phoebe Boswell was born in Nairobi, Kenya, raised in the Arabian Gulf, studied at the Slade School of Art and Central St Martins, and currently lives and works in London. In 2019, she received the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Artists and was the 2019 Bridget Riley Drawing Fellow at the British School at Rome. She is a Ford Foundation Fellow, and is represented in the United States by Sapar Contemporary, New York. Her work has been widely exhibited: with institutional solo exhibitions at Autograph APB in London, Goteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, and the forthcoming HERE at New Art Exchange in Nottingham, which was postponed from 2020 due to covid-19; with galleries including Iniva, the Royal Academy, Kristen Hjellegjerde, Carroll / Fletcher, and Tiwani Contemporary; solo presentations at art fairs 1:54, the Armory Show, and Expo Chicago; and has screened at Sundance, the London Film Festival, LA Film Festival and
Blackstar amongst others. She participated in the Goteborg International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2015, the Biennial of Moving Images 2016 at the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Geneva, and received the Future Generation Art Prize’s Special Prize in 2017, consequently exhibiting as part of the Collateral Events programme at the 57th Venice Biennale. Boswell is one of the selected artists for Prospect 5 in New Orleans and her first public artwork PLATFORM (2020), commissioned and produced by the Fonds cantonal d’art contemporain, Geneva, for the Mire Programme, was unveiled at Lancy-Bachet Railway Station in Geneva in July 2020.
www.phoebeboswell.com