THE HOLD – ET AL COLLECTIVE
December 5-10:00 am - 4:00 pm

OPEN: 5 December 10-4pm
PRIVATE VIEW: 4 December 6-9pm
et al. Collective’s debut exhibition, The Hold explores entangled ideas of social, environmental, political, and mental ecologies. Connecting 32 London based artists, the exhibition at The Crypt Gallery features painting, print, sculpture, installation, video, sound, and performance. Dichotomies and oppositions are examined – the stretched and strained boundaries of the external and internal, public and private, of seeing and being seen. In a time where perceptions of reality are constantly in a state of flux, artists signal experiences of time and space, the brevity of the present, and life after automation.
Overlooked realities are confronted and magnified and the viewer is encouraged to shift position and occupy an embodied ‘looking’, calling for a reckoning of mediated vision and image making, rupturing systems that reinforce hierarchies and affect ontologies. Art making in a time of crises and fatalism emanates through explorations of the precarious nature of transient life and environments, whilst principles of interdependence are brought to attention. Artworks are future relics in The Crypt Gallery, where the living and the dead coexist simultaneously. The Hold envisions the Crypt as a space of re-encounter, where unstable existential realities are amplified tenfold.
et al. Collective is a new artist collective created by Chelsea College of Arts MA Fine Art students, Anouk Baumgartner, Natasha Botelho Cook, Lilymay Healy, and Esmé Matthews.
Exhibiting artists:
Anouk Baumgartner
Lara Chahine
Jude Chantler
Kai Hsuan Chang
Yishan Chen
Natasha Botelho Cook
Oliver Dobson
Tina Forsyth
Jonathan Hadari
Daosheng Han
Lilymay Healy
Sarah Hopper
Laura Hornsby
Erinne Huston
Oli James
SeungWon Jang
Amy Kaluzhny
Abigail Kennedy
Willem Keys
Jay Lee
Esmé Matthews
Tingjiang ‘Skey70’ Meng
Kenenza Michiko
Amy Poliero
Thomas Josef Reading
Lydia Seaman
Karson Selah
Minchi Seo
Andrew Willms
Nuo Yang
Wanqi Zhu
Hantao Zhuang
Instagram @et_al.collective
Text by Tara Dowling @taraswork
