Still from Freya Tewelde, Suffocation iii, 2023
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED, NOW SLATED FOR MID-DECEMBER. FULL DETAILS TO FOLLOW.
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Join us on the evening of November 30th from 6pm for a performance by Freya Tewelde, followed by a live conversation.
Freya Tewelde will present a new perfomance piece in conversation with her work "Suffocation", currently on exhibition as part of Ed Cross' group show Re.
Refreshments will be served from 6pm, with Tewelde's performance beginning around 6:30pm, followed immediately by the in-conversation. Attendance is free but booking is highly appreciated! RSVP emily@edcrossfineart.com
"Considering the layers of artifice we all inhabit every day, Tewelde begins with a black body suit as a conceptually blank canvas before pulling on garment after garment. As the performance continues, it becomes increasingly uncomfortable and unwieldy; roller-skates put on halfway through make movement difficult, and the increasing bulk of Tewelde’s clothes makes it easy to imagine how hot and constricted her body must be beneath them. Yet, she continues – while dispensing with the layers of cultural signifiers might be liberating, it is rarely an option, for Tewelde and her viewer alike. As the video begins again, Suffocation illustrates a cycle that encompasses us all. " Read more.
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Freya Tewelde is an interdisciplinary artist based in London of Eritrean heritage. Tewelde uses a narrative of lost heritages and rituals as a point of departure. Looking at human relationships and how we navigate spaces, Tewelde integrates accepted cultural, spiritual, socio-economic systems and ideological viewpoints of the everyday.
Tewelde’s practice is based on video performance, painting, sound and mixed media using archival photographs and language.
Recent exhibitions include Miami Art Week, Miami, 2022; Little Explosions, Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, 2022; The Parable of the Seven, The Smallest Gallery in Soho, London, 2021; Reality and Disorder, Espacio Gallery, London, 2020; Rituals, The Room Contemporary Art Space, Venice, 2019, and The Great Islander, Jing Lu, Taipei, 2019.