Laundry day: a podcast series of unfolding conversations with the artists in Crossings

“At times we phone or Skype. It’s the only way we can talk.”

- Rhim Ibrir, Havarie, 2016

Crossings is a show about the closeness of distance, the experience of connecting with others from afar, while ensconced in our homes, physically disconnected yet always online. As we shared the experiences of a global pandemic, of shifting political landscapes and transformative action, 2020 was also a time of interiority, of modified subjectivities and heightened anxieties as global lockdowns forced us to turn inwards. Together we withdrew from the world; our most intimate relationships were confined to our bubbles or existed only on screen.

Crossings brings together a range of artists and works that register the polarities of inside and outside, closeness and distance, health and illness and the impacts of larger external forces on our collective subjectivities. The artists selected work in a variety of media, are of different generations and have different life experiences and cultural backgrounds―yet their works share a concern with how objects, images and materials carry meanings that suggest rather than proclaim. They niggle at the edge of knowing, to articulate the promise and fear of a threshold state.

Laundry Day is an unfolding series of conversations between artists, friends and collaborators in Crossings. Each episode will explore how the works in Crossings resonate with one another, where they intersect and collide, how the artists have responded to the unusual year it has been, and the new meanings that can be gleaned from the works being included in a group exhibition. Recorded from afar, from the contributors’ individual homes, Laundry Day is a chance to connect from a distance.