Ivan Michael Blackstock debuts his TRAPLORD show at 180 Strand, a group exhibition highlights sex worker experiences at the ICA, and Guts Gallery embarks on an east London art crawl
Installation view.
NEW YORK, NY
.-M 2 3 is presenting eddy - an exhibition of recent work by Clare Koury, Daniel Klaas Beckwith, Quay Quinn Wolf, Tenant of Culture, Vladislav Markov. eddy will be on view through 24 January 2021.
You ought to lie in rivers or in ponds
As do the waterweeds which harbour pike.
The body grows light in the water. When your arm
Falls easily from water into sky
The little wind rocks it absentmindedly
[From Of Swimming in Lakes and Rivers, by Bertolt Brecht]
An eddy is a spiral, a small vortex, which spins counter to and disrupts the current. Against the great tides of the ocean, or the modest flow of a stream, eddies catch and confuse, addle and amaze. To Bertolt Brecht floating inverts our relationship to the real: we transcend gravity, we fall into the sky. Here we see works which similarly push against the currents of our material world, and in doing so call on us to suspend disbelief: in repurposing and recontextualizing media a