TRANSFORMER – A REBIRTH OF WONDER
2019-10-28The title of the show is borrowed from American ‘beat’ poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s “I Am Waiting” – his celebrated commentary on the problems in American society and the need for a better life, the rebirth of a new wonder. The mood of the poem is a call for a change of consciousness.
Jefferson Hack said: “The artists in Transformer look deeply into the present and see the future. Each artist is a powerful mediator of their community and culture, using storytelling, poetics, and ritual to author new narratives and expand our field of vision. They are world-makers, inviting us to access altered states of consciousness as we step beyond reality into a series of highly authored, staged environments.”
Transformer welcomes the diversity of voices that come with an exploration of identity, representation and self-image and considers how coming together, sharing, bonding, taking action, building alliances and showing compassion is shaping the future to connect and affect change.
Exhibition runs through to December 8th, 2019
180 The Strand
London
WC2R 1EA
