BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4870@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20190509T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20190707T200000 DTSTAMP:20190614T134753Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/open-eye-gallery-kinship/ SUMMARY:Open Eye Gallery: Open Eye Gallery: Kinship DESCRIPTION:KINSHIP\n9 MAY - 7 JULY 2019\nLAUNCH NIGHT: 9 MAY\, 6-8PM.\nOPE N TO ALL! RSVP HERE.\n\n\n\nOpening 10th May\, Kinship at Open Eye Galle ry navigates the dynamics of modern relationships. The exhibition presents projects from seven photographers\, all women\, addressing traditional id eas of how people might relate to others based on their gender\, age\, or position within a family. Together\, the artists seek to open up new ways of thinking about how we express our sense of kin — as friends\, family and partners.\n\nIn Experimental Relationship\, Pixy Liao presents her e veryday dynamic as a Chinese born woman in a relationship with a younger J apanese man. Her photos consist of ‘experiments’ with her partner that subvert the traditional gender roles of heterosexual relationships. By pl ayfully inverting the balance of sex and power\, Liao opens up a space to re-approach relationships and move beyond unfair gender roles.\n\nJohanna Heldebro takes a different approach to capturing private family dynamics. After some time of having no contact with her father following her parent ’s divorce\, she learned that he was living a new life in Sweden. She de cided to cross the Atlantic to learn more about him by taking photos of hi s new life\, without his knowledge. Using techniques learned from police s urveillance photography\, Heldebro’s To Come Within Reach of You (Gunna r Heldebro\, Hässelby Strandväg 55\, 165 65 Hässelby\, Sweden) charts the artist’s attempts to learn about her father’s new life. Although g reat steps are taken towards this (including breaking into his home)\, Hel debro finds this one-way process of ‘following’ an unfulfilling way of coming to know someone.\n\nLydia Goldblatt also photographed her father\, following him through his experience of living with dementia during the l ast years of his life. Still Here also involves images of her mother goi ng through the experience of losing someone\, alongside close-up images of moments and objects that act as visual poetry.\n\nOne Day Young\, a proj ect from Jenny Lewis\, captures intimate portraits of women with their new born children on the very first day of their lives together. Rather than p hotographing mothers in hospitals\, she visits them in their homes\, all a bike ride away from her flat in Hackney. The portraits share a powerful r ange of emotions women experience at the start of their motherhood.\n\nIn an early project titled Family (1994)\, Margaret Mitchell photographed her nieces and nephews growing up on an estate in Stirling. In this Place \, a new series begun over 20 years later\, revisits the lives of her lat e sister’s children\, documenting their relationships against the backdr op of urban displacement and inequality that passes from generation to gen eration.\n\nMomo Okabe’s photobook Dildo reached cult status through b eing both super-rare (limited to 55 copies worldwide) and\, to some\, hype r-sexual. The project follows two of the artist’s partners with fluid ge nder identities\, including a journey through gender reassignment surgery in Thailand. Presented as a photographic family journal\, running througho ut the series is an immense sensitivity\, compassion and acceptance.\n\nFo r the past three years\, Open Eye Gallery has collaborated with residents from the Northwood Golden Years group in Kirkby\, alongside filmmaker Jemm a O’Brien and photographer Tony Mallon. For Kinship\, Jemma O’Brien presents a new collaborative video work that reflects upon the close ties\ , trust and friendships formed between the group over the fifty years they have spent together and witnessed their hometown change.Kinship is part of RISE\, a year-round programme by Liverpool City Council to champion the achievements of women and celebrate underrepresented histories. As part o f this\, Open Eye Gallery is seeking to address a historic gender imbalanc e in photography by ensuring at least 80% of the artists they work with th is year are women or a gender minority.\n\nKinship runs from 9th May to 7 th July\, featuring the work of Pixy Liao\, Lydia Goldblatt\, Johanna Held ebro\, Jenny Lewis\, Momo Okabe\, and Margaret Mitchell. Entrance to Open Eye Gallery is free\, always. Open Tuesday-Sunday\, 10am – 5pm. Open Eye Gallery is supported by Arts Council England\, Paul Hamlyn Foundation\, F oyle Foundation and Liverpool City Council.\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2019/04/Open-Eye-Gallery-dilekottoonedayyoung_jennylewis2016-1024x683.jp g 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:20190331T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR