Worn: Footwear, Attachment and Affective Experience at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery

Sara Jaspan, Exhibitions Editor

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Worn: Footwear, Attachment and Affective Experience

30 September 2017-27 January 2018

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While some may spend significant amounts of money on them, for most, shoes are largely considered to be simple everyday necessities. Not for artist/curator Ellen Sampson RA, however, whose recent PhD and wider art practice focuses entirely on our attachment to footwear.

Her new exhibition at Warrington Museum & Art Gallery explores shoes as evocative objects, loaded with meanings and memories; from magical shoes in fairy-tales to abandoned and empty shoes resonant with loss. Indeed, through use and wear, shoes become a record of the wearer’s lived experience – the paths they have walked and the journeys they have taken. For Sampson, a shoe is a vessel for memory; a repository of gesture. Even when our bodies are gone, traces of motion remain in the creases, folds and scuffs of use.

Worn: Footwear, Attachment and Affective Experience features a range of film and photography works as well as installation. Tread lightly. And wear your best.

The exhibition is part of Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival; a month-long event run by Culture Warrington, which aims to bring the best in contemporary art to a wider audience and encourage direct engagement across the town and region.

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