Announces upcoming programme for autumn 2023 and 2024
POPE.L: HOSPITAL, 21 NOV 2023 - 11 FEB 2024
The SLG presents, Hospital, the first institutional solo exhibition in London by Chicago-based artist Pope.L. His practice spans writing, painting, performance, installation, sculpture and video, which will be explored across both the SLG’s Main Gallery and Fire Station. With roots in philosophy and theatre, Pope.L’s career since the 1970s has centred on society, politics and contemporary culture. The work often reveals contradictory and provocative themes in language, gender, race, economics and community.
At the core of an expansive new installation in the SLG’s Main Gallery will be a set of three towers, all in different states of gradual collapse. They are a reworking of the towers on top of which the artist, wearing only a jock strap and covered in flour, sat on a toilet and consumed newspaper pages in his performance, Eating the Wall Street Journal, 2000. For this latest version Pope.L has removed the live performance element, shifting the focus to the dynamic of the toppling tower structures and viewers’ capacity to imagine what might have happened or what is still to come.
Alongside the towers will be a new set of shelf works, shown in both the Main Gallery and two galleries in the Fire Station, in which arrays of bottles of cheap alcohol are showcased on simple wooden shelves. Also in the Fire Station will be a screening of Small Cup (2008).
THE CONCH, WED 29 NOV, 7-8.30PM
Join us for the next edition of The Conch - a forum for artists to present work in progress and receive feedback from the audience. This event presents new work by artists David Quartey (DQ), Nicolaas van de Lande and duo Laila Majid and Louis Blue Newby.
SOUTH LONDON LOUIE EVENING CHEF IN RESIDENCE: TOM GEOFFREY
Our café South London Louie's new Chef in Residence, Tom Geoffrey, will be serving up a Cambodian-inspired menu every Thursday to Saturday evening, 5.30 – 10pm, until Fri 22 Dec.
CLAUDETTE JOHNSON: PRESENCE, THE COURTAULD GALLERY - 14 JAN 2024
A major exhibition of work by one of the most significant figurative artists of her generation. Presenting key early drawings alongside recent and new works, this exhibition offers a compelling overview of Claudette Johnson's pioneering career and artistic development.
Further Information: South London Gallery