Private View of the ‘States of Existence’ Exhibition to coincide with the World Mental Health Day on 10 October 2019 6pm till late.

Come join us for an evening of arts, music and community get together in a stigma free space to celebrate our aporetic minds and bodies as the way they are free from taboos, rules and borders.

Curated by Tuğba Tirpan and Sophie Akehurst, this exhibition showcases transitory works from humans who express themselves through art to convey varied experiences of human life.

Some of the works explore physical, mental, emotional, social, spiritual, racial or financial adversity of human experience while others look into the inconjunction of these difficulties with the historical abusive assertion of power and control through psychiatry. 'State' control of ‘mental illness’ and undesired behaviour. We also have some works from current inpatients at mental health institutions.

Breaking the stigma surrounding *mental health* is challenging in this binary narrative of normal/abnormal, healthy/unhealthy, well/unwell and what that means to the individual. Join us in this challenge!

Email: wellspacearts@gmail.com

STATES OF EXISTENCE

Private View: October 10th 6-9pm
Exhibition Open daily 11-15 October between 11am-5pm

Artists Participating

Image by Omamah ALsadiQ aka 300 camels

About the wider project: Well space is a community space recently started in Hackney, with a group of diverse individuals promoting positive awareness through peaceful activities for all.