Programme
Celia Hempton
- Venue: Zoom
- Start: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 17:00:00 GMT
- End: Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:30:00 GMT
Hempton’s art explores concepts of voyeurism in the post-digital age. In her paintings, performances and installations, she investigates the blurred lines of comfort and consent; desire and subjugation, visibility and opacity, seeking to deconstruct the ways in which we engage with humans in an evolving hyper-mediated age. Formally, Hempton’s paintings, which range in size from intimate to the life-size acknowledge the tropes of ‘history painting’ and the often subjugated female body. Hempton's richly layered paintings directly play and confront this historical dynamism, producing tactile celebrations of the body, as well as multiple perspectives on how the bodily gaze is constructed.
Celia Hempton lives and works in London. In recent years her work has been included in exhibitions at ICA Boston, Performance Space 122 NYC, Artspace Sydney, Whitechapel Gallery, London, amongst many others. She has had solo presentations at Gwangju Biennale, Art Night with ICA London, Kunstverein Aachen and performances at Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli, Serpentine Galleries, London. Her work will be included in the British Art Show 9 in 2021. It is held in international private and public collections including The Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellin, Colombia, The British Council and the Government Art Collection, UK.