Jennifer Higgie on the art of healing and how art can lend solace to a troubled world.
The artist Bonnie Sherk doing a performance on San Francisco’s Army Street highway interchange, 1970
Doors: 7pm
The talk will start at 7:30
Tickets: £7-£10
How can art lend solace to a troubled world? Expanding on some of the themes of her new book The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World, Jennifer will discuss a cross-section of historic and contemporary artists and activists, collectives and individuals, examining how art through the ages reflects not only cultural, social and individual mores, but can also offer a space of speculation and consolation. In a world full of dreadful certainties and divisions, art, in its myriad manifestations, can suggest alternative perspectives and the possibilities of new paradigms. In the words of the Bauhaus textile artist Anni Albers:
‘Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness.’
Still from Thao Nguyễn Phan's film, Reincarnations of Shadows (moving-image-poem) (2023)
Previously the editor of Frieze magazine, Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer who lives in London. Her books The Mirror & The Palette: Rebellion, Resilience and Resistance: 500 Years of Women’s Self Portraits (2021) and The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit (2023) are published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
