Gallery 2
Jack Caddy, Grace Connors, Jesse Bowling, Brooke Hyrons, Anita Cummins curated by Matt Siddall
Friday 25 March - Sunday 10 April
โi burnt a hole in my pocket to fix myselfโ is a group exhibition interrogating how the intangible elements of โwellnessโ are monetised into goods and services. Humour, irony and earnest reflection are employed by each artist to subvert the commodification of mental health regimes and treatments, and how performative acts of wellness are transformed into profit-making initiatives. The exhibition explores the regulation of oneโs mental and physical states to insert oneself into todayโs prevailing market society as acts of self-care. We come to see these as coping mechanisms and radical diversions from existing in financially and politically precarious states.
Image credit: Grace Connors, I went to a Bikram yoga class and all I got was a pat on the back and a grande caramel soy latte (2017). Screenshot of video work.