For My Only Love, Yours in Body and Soul - Closing Event

Event, Free, In Person

Friday 4th November 2022 7:00pm - 9:00pm

God's House Tower, Town Quay Road, Southampton, SO14 2NY

As part of ‘a space’ arts/God’s House Tower’s Black History Month 2022 programme, we’re delighted to present a new exhibition by London-based multidisciplinary artist Ebun Sodipo, and you’re invited to celebrate at our closing event.

Join us at GHT from 7pm on Friday 4th November, where you can explore the galleries and immerse yourself in this new exhibition. The exhibited works are inspired by the lives of Southampton residents between the 16th and 20th century and love letters ‘found’ in the Southampton archives, and merge visual and audio works to create a captivating show which explores themes of love and race.

At the event, you’ll have the chance to hear from ‘a space’ arts Creative Programme Manager Mia Delve who’ll discuss more about the exhibition, and artist Ebun Sodipo, who’ll be sharing a reading and talking more about the works and how they came together. The bar will also be open throughout the evening, serving drinks and refreshments.

 

How to book

The exhibition closing event will take place at GHT on Friday 4th October 2022 from 7pm – 9pm. Tickets are free and can be booked on Eventbrite by following the link (click here)

 

About the Exhibition

“For this project, I am interested in the changing attitudes towards Africans and their descendants in Southampton between the 16th and 20th century. I plan to explore these attitudes through a fictional love story between a woman living in Southampton and her lover who is always at sea. To write this love story I have been exploring some of the lives of Southampton residents in this time period. This love story will be told across love letters, ‘found’ in the Southampton archives and presented as collage and audio text.”

For My Only Love, Yours in Body and Soul is on display at GHT from Friday 7th October until Sunday 6th November and is free to visit.

 

About the Artist

Ebun makes work for those who will come after: the black trans people of the future. Her interdisciplinary practice narrates her construction of a black trans-feminine self after slavery and colonialism. Through a process of fragmentation, collage, and fabulation, she devises softer, other- wise ways of imagining and speaking about the body, desire, archives, and the past.

Ebun’s work has been featured at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning Centre, Bernie Grants Arts Centre, Narrative Projects, Raven Row, The Block Museum of Art, South London Gallery, Arcadia Missa’s How To Sleep Faster, Auto Italia, ICA, Tate Britain, Embassy Gallery, Wasafiri, CCA Annex, Camden Arts Centre, Frieze. She was artist in residence at Porthmeor Studios, and Gasworks. She is currently working on commissions for VISUAL Carlow, FACT Liverpool. She also teaches at Falmouth University.