Beacons: Signs at Caustic Coastal

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Beacons: Signs

Caustic Coastal, Salford
29 March-21 April 2018

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DOMINIQUE WHITE Flag of Nowhere 2017. Beacons: Signs at Caustic Coastal, Salford
DOMINIQUE WHITE, Flag of Nowhere, 2017. Image courtesy of the artist and Caustic Coastal
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Beacons at Caustic Coastal in Salford is a programme of 3 exhibitions, talks, workshops and an accompanying publication with interconnecting threads and tangents exploring our relationships with ourselves and each other within the framework of cyclical time and feminist legacies. Pharos, Flare and Signs seek to communicate our experiences of time, existence and our bodies through empathetic exchanges with objects, emotional archives, traces left in artefacts; imagining futures and resurfacing histories.

“…a person I very much admire and respect once told me in an astrology reading that if theres any kind of community for a person like me they are all out there distributed across time and space. And that resonated a lot for me, and it seems to resonate with what you’re saying here. This person explained that the things I make in the world will operate as beacons and the people w whom I am kin, twin, common – they’ll find me that way, like ships in a storm.” (Letter to a friend, Jesse Darling)

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