Memory of Hope

Memory of Hope is a group show at Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool which opens this Thursday 4 August, from 18:00 - 20:00.

The show features all the gallery artists plus guests invited by the gallery artists - in our case we invited Simon Faithfull (Berlin) and Mary Griffiths (Manchester) to contribute. We're showing two new sculptural pieces - Moonie Wedding and Sparkle Snare. There's more background on the show and on the artists at Ceri Hand Gallery - but here's a taster......

“Ideology collapses and vanishes, utopianism atrophies, but something great is left behind: the memory of a hope”, Henri Lefebvre. Devised with gallery artist Matthew Houlding, this summer exhibition draws on a key text by Henri Lefebvre and the autobiographical writing of JG Ballard, reflecting spaces caught between construction, destruction and nostalgia. Each gallery artist was invited to select two artists in response to Houlding’s concept. The resulting exhibition includes 36 artists and over 100 art works, including film, photography, painting, sculpture, text and audio work - much of it seen for the first time in the UK.