Healing The Museum is the first mid-career retrospective dedicated to Grace Ndiritu’s diverse artistic practice. Performance, film, social actions, publications, textile work and research into museum collections are all part of this multi-layered exhibition project, in which she argues for the re-energization and ethicalization of the museum space and, by extension, the whole society.
Intrigued by the question of what 'embodied architecture' might mean, the artist conceived the exhibition as a journey through space and time, incorporating a personal architectural design entitled The Spiritual Overlay. The journey ends at The Temple, an architectural structure intended for a critical collection presentation but also a spiritual space for encounter, transformation and healing.
The exhibition Healing The Museum is part of the long-term research project of the same name in response to the spiritual decline in cultural institutions and its artist residency at S.M.A.K.
A variety of activities will take place during the exhibition: from slow art day, meditation with pregnant women to lectures.
- Press conference : Thursday 30 March 2023 at 11:00
To January 2024, FOMU (Antwerp) will show Grace Ndiritu Reimagines The FOMU Collection, a wide-ranging, personal selection of works from the museum’s holdings including her own work, curated by the artist.
