Join filmmaker and artist Chiara Ambrosio for a month-long séance, conjuring images, dreams, nightmares and fairy tales reaped and sowed in the city of London.
[ID: painted image of a long-haired figure with their back to us, holding open a pair of dark red curtains to reveal a night-time city scene beyond.]
Private View: Friday 10th June, 6-9pm
Closing Party: Friday 8th July 6-9pm
Exhibition continues 10th June - 8th July 2022, Sun-Fri 12-6pm
The artist will be working in the space on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, 12-6.
The Horse Hospital voyages by RAFT! We are delighted to announce, Raft: A Fragile Display, an exhibition, residency, and festival by filmmaker and artist Chiara Ambrosio (and friends).
Part exhibition, part shrine, part alchemical laboratory, The Horse Hospital will be transformed into a raft, its walls covered in paper over which Chiara will evoke the spirit of the city with humble mediums to create a fragile display, a constellation, a monument, a temporary site-specific configuration of people, objects, practices, ideas, histories, dreams and visions.
As she works, Chiara will be joined daily by many of her creative fellow travellers for events, workshops and informal conversations, in a subversive physical intervention joining the dots across the city of London, connecting and celebrating those who, through their practice, are committed to creativity and the imagination as a sacred trust, a right, and duty.
An artist’s studio, a living archive, and an aerial- receiving and broadcasting at once- RAFT will constitute a temporary autonomous zone of convergence and exchange, a crossroads where people and ideas will meet in a constant state of emergency.
Expect the unexpected: films, works on paper, amulets, performances, stories, books, incantations, song, sound and more, in an ever shifting and changing phantasmagoria of light and shadow.
RAFT is an ark, a garden and a temple.
RAFT is a vessel for home-grown and independent organizations, individuals, spaces, and members of the audience and of local communities.
RAFT is an antidote to the rising tides of social and cultural erasure in the city.
RAFT is a monument, an elegy to London- both its real and dream spaces.
RAFT is a shelter.
RAFT is an ongoing project by filmmaker and visual artist Chiara Ambrosio, which includes a feature film and a monthly radio show on Resonance 104.4fm.