“Rory Pilgrim • Solo” is a solo exhibition by the Netherlands-based British artist Rory Pilgrim (Bristol, 1988). Specifically for the manor home, they’ve chosen a spread of labor from the final fifteen years. Central to the exhibition are three movies, supplemented with drawings, posters and installations, which discover types of assist, neighborhood and resilience. “Rory Pilgrim • Solo” is a part of a five-year partnership with the Hartwig Artwork Basis.

“Rory Pilgrim • Solo”

Rory Pilgrim’s work is characterised by social engagement, music, language and dialogue. These themes are evident within the chosen movies: Violently Talking (2014), The Resounding Bell (2018) and RAFTS (2022). They kind the place to begin for a particular surroundings that Pilgrim has designed for the manor home along with the Polish artist Olga Micińska. Micińska created wood pedestals and arms that bear Pilgrim’s drawings. Numerous artwork disciplines come collectively within the historic areas, creating a robust setting that reinforces the themes within the works.

Movie installations

Pilrim’s most up-to-date work, RAFTS, explores the influence of emergencies such because the COVID-19 pandemic on our psychological well being. Within the movie, which lasts greater than an hour, numerous individuals speak about what offers them assist in occasions of disaster. The video is structured as an oratorio: a musical composition that tells a narrative by way of track, instrumental accompaniment and spoken textual content.

The Resounding Bell can be in regards to the penalties of political decisions—on this case Brexit. Within the movie, younger girls repeatedly pose questions on topics equivalent to rising up, politics, know-how and local weather change to the youthful era. In Violently Talking, Pilgrim explores the unifying energy of the spoken phrase. The movie follows completely different teams of individuals: Quakers in Utah, transgender activists in New York and teenage ladies in Britain. Though they appear to maneuver in numerous circles, they’re interwoven by the invisible threads of historical past.

Software program Backyard consists of a “digital backyard” of outdated tv units and crops. The spatial set up refers back to the advanced nature with all its linked components, through which each particular person motion has penalties for the entire. Additionally within the backyard are a number of plastic service baggage, which symbolise each the destruction of our surroundings and the various tales they’ll carry.

by Centraal Museum at Landhuis Oud Amelisweerd, Utrecht
till October 27, 2024