Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022

18 Nov 22 – 22 Jan 2023

Leeds Art Gallery , Leeds

Michael. will be co-curating an exhibition of artworks from its collection, responding to themes in his work, cleave to the BLACK, including the question ‘what would it be like to live on a land that loves you back?’ and featuring artists including Helen Chadwick, John Constable, Tacita Dean, Hamish Fulton, Runa Islam, Richard Long and Veronica Ryan. Artist and collaborator Ashley Holmes has produced a new sound work that will play in the space.

Soojin Chang will premiere Sacrifice to the Seaworm (2022), a new multi-part film installation featuring a reading, a purification rite, and a burial mound. Chang’s Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022 commissioned film BXBY (2022) will also be exhibited off-site at the Project Space in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds – hosted by the Centre for Audio Visual Experimentation (CAVE).

Michael., cleave to the BLACK, 2022, Commissioned for the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022. Installation view at Jerwood Space. Photo: Anna Arca.