Artists

Leah Clements, Jesse Darling, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Racheal Crowther, Carolyn Lazard, Derek Jarman, Benoît Piéron, Angela de la Cruz, Abi Palmer, Avril Corroon, Bella Milroy, Christine Sun Kim, Freestylers, Jamila Prowse, JJJJJerome Ellis, Lizzy Rose, RA Walden

Press release

Flare-Up is the first institutional exhibition in London to bring together UK-based and international visual artists whose work engages with the poetics and aesthetics of illness, disability, neurodivergence and Deafness. Presenting work by seventeen artists across Goldsmiths CCA, the exhibition brings together sculpture, installation, painting, film, poetry, music and performance as tools of expression and activism. A flare-up refers to the fluctuating intensification of symptoms associated with chronic conditions; in music, a flare is a surge in volume or energy. The exhibition draws on this affective quality, presenting works that use light, sound and water to engage with transcendence, mourning and joy. Curated by Natasha Hoare and Mariana Lemos.