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Turf Projects is pleased to announce the group exhibition WETPAIN. The show brings together local and international artists who explore the physical, historical, and political dimensions of paper. It features works by Ana Raylander Mártis dos Anjos (Brazil), Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino (Brazil/Germany), Debora-Joyce Holman (Switzerland/UK), Samuel Alves de Jesus (Brazil), Samara Paiva (Brazil), and Henrique J. Paris (Angola/UK) – many of whom are exhibiting in the UK for the first time.
Paper carries a layered legacy. It is a bureaucratic record-keeping tool and a site for personal notation, storytelling, and subversion. In WETPAIN, the artists work with these different connotations and use the material to tackle lived experiences and express their creative aims. While questions of race, migration, colonisation, and power inform much of the research behind the works, abstraction emerges as a shared interest.
The exhibition’s title plays on “wet paint,” a common phrase that marks a…
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Press Release
Turf Projects is pleased to announce the group exhibition WETPAIN. The show brings together local and international artists who explore the physical, historical, and political dimensions of paper. It features works by Ana Raylander Mártis dos Anjos (Brazil), Wisrah C. V. da R. Celestino (Brazil/Germany), Debora-Joyce Holman (Switzerland/UK), Samuel Alves de Jesus (Brazil), Samara Paiva (Brazil), and Henrique J. Paris (Angola/UK) – many of whom are exhibiting in the UK for the first time.
Paper carries a layered legacy. It is a bureaucratic record-keeping tool and a site for personal notation, storytelling, and subversion. In WETPAIN, the artists work with these different connotations and use the material to tackle lived experiences and express their creative aims. While questions of race, migration, colonisation, and power inform much of the research behind the works, abstraction emerges as a shared interest.
The exhibition’s title plays on “wet paint,” a common phrase that marks a…
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