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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/exhibition-research-lab-life-for
 ce-of-plants-arts-in-conversation/
SUMMARY:John Lennon Art and Design Building: Exhibition Research Lab: Life 
 Force of Plants – Arts in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Life Force of Plants – Arts in Conversation\n\nThursday 13 No
 v\, 18.30-20.00\n\n—\n\nJoin us\, on Thursday 13 November\, at Exhibitio
 n Research Lab (ERL) for a conversation between acclaimed artist Joy Grego
 ry and Dr Christine Eyene\, followed by a restitution of multidisciplinary
  artist Kuamen’s ERL research residency\, with Sandrine Nganga.\n\nTakin
 g its cue from Joy Gregory’s series The Invisible Life Force of Plants
  (2020) exhibited in “What the Mountain Has Seen” curated by Dr Eyene
 \, the conversation will introduce the audience to Gregory’s experimenta
 l photography and printing practice\, her research into Britain’s 17th-1
 9th century economic botany\, and the migration of plants. It will also e
 xplore the topics and aesthetics represented in her work which is currentl
 y the subject of a major retrospective at Whitechapel Gallery in London.\n
 \nThe plant narratives and themes of vegetal\, mineral\, and cultural extr
 action addressed in the exhibition will be expanded to material production
  through the symbolism of African masks originally carved from the trees o
 f dense central African forests.\n\nKuamen\, Eyene\, and Nganga will appro
 ach the mask as a creation imbued with spirituality\, cultural traditions\
 , and history. They will discuss the artist’s research into new processe
 s of mask-making\, the collaboration with LJMU’s Fashion and 3D Lab (Fab
  Lab) to create a prototype and its symbolism in the context of Liverpool
 ’s Black diasporic experience.\n\nThis event closes the exhibition “Wh
 at the Mountain Has Seen” that will give way to a hybrid display of Kuam
 en’s prototype mask from 20 November to 19 December 2025.\n\nFor more in
 formation and speakers biographies\, visit: www.exhibition-research-lab.c
 o.uk/events/arts-in-conversation/.\n\nThis conversation is part of Exhibi
 tion Research Lab’s decolonial programme developed by Dr Christine Eyene
 \, supported by LJMU’s Enhancing Research Culture Grant.\n\nExhibition R
 esearch Lab Gallery is co-directed by Dr Eyene and Dr James Schofield.\n\n
 —\n\nFree event\, open to all\nBook your place here.
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LOCATION:John Lennon Art and Design Building\, Duckinfield Street\, Liverpo
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