In Passing is a group exhibition that explores how artists use works on paper, sculpture and interventions to engage with themes of resistance, transience and marginality.
Anchored in the conceptual terrain of the fugitive, the fleeting, and the contingent, this exhibition brings together artists who have made work, through choice or necessity, that exist in tension with the mainstream art world’s preference for permanence, commodifiability and institutional legibility.
Whether born out of economic necessity or deliberate refusal, these works embody a politics of impermanence. These are materials that travel easily, evade surveillance and occupy liminal spaces. This might be conceptualised as a politics of the fugitive in the sense of one who escapes and as something transient and elusive. Contingency is reframed not a deficiency but a condition of creative power.
In Passing is a group show featuring the work of Juliette Blightman, John Cage, Ryan Gander, Bhajan Hunjan, Rita Keegan, Matthew Krishanu, Laila Majid and Louis Blue Newby, Cornelia Parker, Keith Piper, Charlotte Posenenske, Daniel Turner and Bill Walton.
For further information please contact:
Georgia Griffiths
georgia@niruratnam.com
