Artists in Conversation & Performance​

AboutHOXTON 253 is a London based non-profit artist run gallery and project space, providing an experimental platform to emerging and mid-career artists.Our aim is to nurture creative talents and to build a community of artists and local residents with the objective to provoke critical dialogue within contemporary culture and society.As a green and sustainability-conscious initiative, our passion lies in creating environments that question our communal and individual responsibilities in regards to our societal and political position in the world, while also dedicating particular attention to highlighting artistic voices that challenge the current untenable system and promote a healthier and sustainable future.Acting as a cultural bridge in the heart of Hoxton, we invite local, national and international creatives to participate in our diverse ongoing program, including exhibitions, experimental and educational projects, residencies, workshops, events and screenings. The space, founded in 2019, has already proven to be a valuable platform to artists including those with non-commercial focus, producing over 50 exhibitions, events, and projects.​Our doors are open to all art lovers, artists, the local community, as well as patrons and collectors.

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Artists in Conversation & Performance /There's no way I can know it, the object, or the body

Sophie Seita will present a lecture performance, Reading the Rock, in response to her sound installation My Contact Aureoles (2020/2022), which is included in the show.Following the performance Claire Zakiewicz and Sophie Seita will be in conversation with HOXTON 253 curator Zsuzsa Benke sharing insights into their different practices and the works showcased in the exhibition. Doors open at 7pm​Performance starts at 7.15pm​About the performance:Sophie Seita’s lecture performance Reading the Rock bends into and around different body-and rock-formations—quite literally through the metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rock that can be found in the Big Bend State Park that runs along the Rio Grande that divides West Texas and Mexico, which is also the setting for Seita’s installation My Contact Aureoles. Other stepping-stones or touchstones are Valie Export’s Körperkonfigurationen (Body Configurations), John Ruskin’s ‘Of the Material of Mountains’ in Modern Painters; Laura Aguilar’s self-portrait Grounded #114 (2006), Dana Luciano and Mel Chen’s ‘Queer Inhumanisms’; Yoko Ono’s Stone Piece, William Empson’s Some Versions of Pastoral; and other materials and voices that tease out the complex from the simple and vice versa, all pivoting around some questions that animate her work in the show: How can a work hold a moment, translate it, make it tangible and yet remain ultimately unknowable? Or more simply: How can I experience this enough?​Event is free, pre-booking is essential as spaces are limited.---------------------------There&#x27;s no way I can know it, the object, or the body exhibition explores the expressive possibilities of writing, drawing, and of writing-bodies, where expression or knowledge is always tied to a question of materiality. The works dissect forms of address, the possibilities for moving and being moved, through writing, painting, video installations, and performance. How can a work hold a moment, make it tangible, knowable?Embedded in both ephemerality and abstraction, the exhibition also addresses ideas around immediacy and energy, time and motion, light and space, what’s observable and what’s imagined, what can be grasped and what remains projection.The event is part of &#x27;There&#x27;s no way I can know it, the object, or the body&#x27; a duo exhibition by Sophie Seita and Claire Zakiewicz / 4-26 February 2022Further information and full exhibition programme: <a href="https://www.hoxton253.com/theres-no-way-i-can-know-it.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.hoxton253.com/theres-no-way-i-can-know-it</a>​The exhibition and associated programme are supported by and part of HELLO AGAIN, HACKNEY, the borough&#x27;s cultural reopening initiative.

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