BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.7//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7476@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20230610 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20230918 DTSTAMP:20230626T123220Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/liverpool-biennial-2023-at-open- eye-gallery/ SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Liverpool Biennial 2023 at Open Eye Gallery DESCRIPTION:Liverpool Biennial 2023 at Open Eye Gallery\n10 June – 17 Sep tember 2023\n\nExhibition is open weekly on Tuesday\, Wednesday\, Thursday \, Friday\, Saturday &\; Sunday. Check venue opening times for further information.\n\nAt Open Eye Gallery\, the artists imagine ways to depict t he continuing colonial catastrophe\, highlighting the reverberations of vi olence and extraction which infiltrate the land\, seas\, mountains\, fores ts\, air and our bodies. The works on display highlight Western exploitati ve practices related to the extraction and destruction of natural resource s in African countries.David Aguacheiro’s photographic installation cons iders the ongoing extractivism (the removal of large quantities of raw or natural materials\, particularly for export) of oil\, timber\, sea life an d other essential natural resources from the artist’s home country of Mo zambique\, and its devastating impacts. By centring people through his poi gnant portraits\, Aguacheiro suggests that the repercussions of this viole nce are complex\, deep-rooted\, and layered. The artist presents people st ripped not only of their resources\, but also their clothes\, dignity and identities. The extraction is extended beyond that of the land to include culture\, place\, tradition\, language\, religion\, worth\, and self. The work questions the value and ethics of consumer goods and trade\, asking u s to consider the devastating and long-term impact on the people and land which remain.Rahima Gambo employs walking as an artistic practice\, using movement as a meditative and creative process from which to weave a visua l story. ‘Nest-works and Wander-lines’ (2021) and ‘Instruments of Ai r’ (2021) explore the origins of language\, embodied and multisensory co mmunication\, and speculative storytelling. The artist places video clips on a timeline\, similar to found objects in an assemblage or words in a cu t up poem\, to create an out of time and out of place territory. Underpinn ed by an improvised and open-ended approach\, the video installation becom es a capsule for the artist’s fleeting experience of traversing a partic ular rural environment in Laongo\, Burkina Faso\, where Gambo spent three months in 2020. With a background in photojournalism\, here Gambo proposes an alternative to the documentary storytelling form\, focusing on sensing rather than seeing and experimenting with new forms of non-verbal languag e. The works reject standardised and normative forms of communication\, us ing movement\, symbols\, signs\, gesturing\, tracing and silence as prefer red modes of understanding the world.\n\nSuspended in the centre of the ga llery\, Sandra Suubi’s ‘Samba Gown’ is a statement of resistance. T he work\, originally devised as a performance piece\, imagines and re-enac ts the Ugandan independence ceremony of 1962 as a wedding ceremony. A proc ession in the Samba Gown is used as a metaphor for what happened that day when Uganda (bride) entered a binding contract with its former colonisers (groom). The work draws attention to the transactional relationship that e xists between former colonies and their colonisers. The photographs displa yed around the gallery document the wearing of the gown in various rubbish dumps in Kampala\, Uganda. Comprised from plastic waste\, the gown commen ts on plastic pollution as one of the major aftermaths of colonialism – Uganda receives thousands of tonnes of plastic waste from wealthy nations each year. Suubi evokes historical narratives\, contemporary narratives on dumping grounds and the West’s exporting of waste\, alongside contempor ary forms of Western extraction such as knowledge and anthropological stud ies.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2023/06/Sandra-Suubi-‘Samba-Gown-2021.-Liverpool-Biennial-2023-at-Open -Eye-Gallery.-Courtesy-of-Liverpool-Biennial.-Photography-by-Mark-McNulty- 3-1920x1440-1.jpg LOCATION:Open Eye Gallery\, Mann Island\, Liverpool Waterfront\, Liverpool\ , L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.40423;-2.994412 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Mann Island\, Liverpool Wat erfront\, Liverpool\, L3 1BP\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=1 00;X-TITLE=Open Eye Gallery:geo:53.40423,-2.994412 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230326T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR