Exhibition Tour: 'Flare-up' at Goldsmiths CCA

Please join CSCA for an exhibition tour of ‘Flare-up’, the first institutional exhibition in London to bring together UK-based and international visual artists whose work engages with the poetics and aesthetics of illness, disability, neurodivergence and Deafness. The tour will be guided by a member of the curatorial team Natasha Hoare and/or Charlie Clark. 

Presenting work by seventeen artists across Goldsmiths CCA, the exhibition brings together sculpture, installation, painting, film, poetry, music and performance as tools of expression and activism. A flare-up refers to the fluctuating intensification of symptoms associated with chronic conditions; in music, a flare is a surge in volume or energy – an escalation that can also be celebratory. The exhibition draws on this affective quality, presenting works that use light, sound and water to engage with transcendence, mourning and joy. Many works address the daily rituals of care – or survival – alongside the labour of access. They also attend to the spiritual and redemptive, whether through hope placed in a medical system where much remains unexplained, or through the bodily and emotional intensities of pain, exclusion and alienation, intercut with intimacy and pleasure.

The event will be open to UCL staff and students only.

If you would like to join, please RSVP to jessica.owens.23@ucl.ac.uk

Image: Racheal Crowther, Qualified to Care, 2022. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Stephen James.