BSL Tour with Trudi Collier – Mercedes Azpilicueta: Fire on the Mountain, Light on the Hill
Duration: 90 minutes
Price: Free
Accessibility:
Azpilicueta’s work is committed to an exploration of care and resistance, often considering and revealing less well-known stories from history, and platforming the role of women who have made a difference in the past, and who continue to inspire in the present.
For this show, she brings these subjects together in a presentation centred on a major work entitled ‘Potatoes, Riots and Other Imaginaries’ (2021). This mixed media installation weaves together historic and contemporary themes – inspired by the artist’s research of the 1917 Potato Riots in the Jordaan neighbourhood of Amsterdam, directly organised by working class women of this community in response to the extreme food shortages they faced during the First World War.
The show also references contemporary collective action in the form of Ni Una Menos – the feminist grass roots social movement in Argentina, that campaigns against gender based violence, in which Azpilicueta has played an active role since 2015.
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Content warning: The works in this exhibition refer to the First World War and gender-based violence.
Accessibility: Led in BSL with English interpretation.