Future Collect 2020 - 2021

1 videos • 10 views • by Manchester Art Gallery Jade Montserrat creates works on paper and performances exploring race, the body and language. Over the next six months, she will make a major new work which will enter the collection and be exhibited here in Spring 2021. As part of this process, we have created an active research space, showcasing her previous works on paper alongside artworks from the Gallery’s collection. Part gallery and part studio, we are also presenting her notebooks, research and art materials, which give us a unique insight into her artistic process and creative thinking. Constellations: Care & Resistance references star clusters and patterns. These were understood in astronomy as a way for past cultures to explore multiple stories, share memories and spark curiosity. This creative constellation seeks to do the same and expands the conversation about Montserrat’s practice to include works by other artists in the Gallery’s collection, Claudette Johnson, Mark Titchner and Ian Hamilton Finlay. The title also relates to the idea that care can be an act of resisting oppression and silence as demonstrated by the work of Montserrat and these artists. Montserrat is also interested in structures of care in institutions, initiating urgent conversations about how works of art and people are looked after. Constellations: Care & Resistance is not an end but a beginning. Montserrat will interrogate the collection as she creates her new work. https://manchesterartgallery.org/exhi...