THE EVENT STARTS AT 11AM
As a part of london gallery weekend
Join us for an in-conversation and exhibition walkthrough of Erin Manning's solo exhibition 100 Acres, with Barbican Centre curator, Wells Fray-Smith.
100 Acres is the first solo exhibition of Canadian cultural theorist, political philosopher and artist, Erin MANNING (b. 1969) in the UK and at a private gallery. Manning’s practice is predominantly textile-based and relationally-oriented, often participatory, with a strong pedagogical interest. The site-specific installation encompasses the entire gallery, composed of two twenty-five yard cuts of monks cloth that are sewn, embroidered, knotted and tufted.
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100 Acres will be open at Richard Saltoun Gallery London, 31 May - 22 June 2024.
About the curator
Wells Fray-Smith is a London-based writer and curator, currently holding the position of curator at the Barbican Centre. Before that, she held curatorial positions at Whitechapel Gallery, Pace Gallery as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Projects at Whitechapel include The London Open (2022); Emma Talbot: The Age (2022), Nocturnal Creatures (2021); Helen Cammock: Che si puó fare and SenseSound Sound Sense (2019). She was research assistant for Basquiat: Boom For Real at the Barbican Art Gallery (2017) and has contributed catalogue essays on artists Emma Talbot (2022), Secundino Hernández (2022), Daniel Rich (2022), Tess Jaray (2022), Prabhavathi Meppayil (2022) and Fabienne Verdier (2020).
