Jane Glennie

Fear & Yearning (and the sliver in between)

Mon 7 August 2023 - Fri 15 September 2023

Alison Richard Building

Through digital videos and related images, both intensely present and intensely absent, this exhibition expresses emotions that wobble between intense fears and yearning for something other.

The ‘slivers’ are the more comfortable moments between feeling fear and wanting something other for oneself or for humanity. The struggle to exist in the moment when, somewhere, the grass is always seeming greener. The fear of not having credibility, or autonomy, or a voice that is recognised. The fear of never amounting to much, to submitting to the subjugation of women, or not fighting one’s corner. The terror and desire of motherhood, resisting ambivalence. Yearning and fighting for progress. A desire to widen the slivers.

This exhibition connects the dots between two recent film projects by Jane Glennie: Because Goddess is Never Enough created with Rosie Garland, and a series of films made with Toby Martinez de las Rivas (developed from poetry published in his recent book Floodmeadow) and sound artist Neda Milenova Mirova. The films are playing in a loop on the screen on the ground floor, while the plinths and walls on all levels of the Alison Richard Building include film stills, images, and materials leading towards, or derived from, these film works.

Join us for a film screening and panel conversation to close the exhibition on 14 September 2023 at 17:30 (https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/39413/)

Cost: free