A solo exhibition at Sunny Bank Mills in Farsley, Leeds.
8th – 30th July 2023
Open 10am – 4pm Tuesdays to Saturdays & 12pm – 4pm on Sundays.
The exhibition features drawings, installations, photographs, sound, digital works, and an artist’s book, all developed over six years of artistic research exploring our relationship with Saturn.
The catalyst for the research is the unprocessed images from the Cassini mission (1997-2017). This set of almost 400,000 raw images preserves the imaging errors and glitches captured across the mission over two decades. This set of uncalibrated images is reinterpreted through the artist’s multimedia approach and entered into dialogue with contrasting visions of Saturn from myth and astrology.
The notion of the raw or uncalibrated is an underlying thread, from the rawness of techno-scientific objective measurement to the rawness of mythological, visceral, artistic expression.
Saturn was once the star of melancholy, that blend of sadness, introspection, and a sense of longing or yearning. Uncalibrated revisits the interplay between the planet’s symbolic resonance and the notion of melancholy as a complex human condition.
Uncalibrated is curated by Courtney Spencer & supported by the University of Leeds, The Art Court, Leeds Inspired, White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities and UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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Click here for details to the launch on Saturday the 8th 2-4pm. This event is open to all ages, and visitors will be encouraged to take part in a drop-in drawing workshop to create a space-themed collage inspired by Hondartza’s research.
Join me in Conversation with Courtney Spencer on Thursday 27th July 6-8pm. Where we will discuss space, drawing, and melancholy in Uncalibrated.
Image: Dark, Cassini raw images, ink, graphite, charcoal, photo-paper, 2023
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