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Glenn Ligon: All Over The Place

Experience the work of American contemporary artist Glenn Ligon in this landmark exhibition bringing together works by the artist alongside his unique interventions in The Fitzwilliam Museum's galleries.

Abstract marks in thick paint in reds, blues and greens.

For Those Who Don’t Want to be Found

Mon 11 November 2024 - Fri 20 December 2024

Alison Richard Building

Join us for an exhibition reception on Thursday 21 November from 17.30 – 20:00 for drinks in the atrium of the Alison Richard Building. All welcome!


About the exhibition:

‘For Those Who Don’t Want to Be Found’ is an exploration of disputed territory. It’s an exhibition that thinks about space, place and the way that personal histories connect the two; the way we come to see, know and inhabit our surroundings, as well as the technologies that record and distort them. The turning point of the uncanny, the moment when the familiar becomes unfamiliar, is a resonating concern as are the forces that determine one’s ‘right’ to remain. Changing corporeality, changing materiality.

Underpinning each of these strands is a personal preoccupation with disappearance, a process we might wish to counteract to recover someone or something lost, or which we might wish to practise as a form of escape.

All the works shown, from synaesthetic paintings to excoriations of pure gold leaf, from films made using ‘dead’ equipment to digital syntheses of communal cultural capital – present secret places and divulge secret histories. Ritualistic in composition, powerfully symbolic in form and often imbued with the matter of the experiences that informed them, the works in this exhibition trace lines of disappearance or otherwise issue clarion calls towards such vanishing acts. They are open portals to other places.

About the artist:

Yvonne Salmon FRSA FRGS FRSPH FRAI is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and academic. She is the director of The Alchemical Landscape project and the Cambridge University Counterculture Research Group. Her academic expertise spans multiple fields, ranging from law and literature to art history and behavioural economics, and in pursuit of this work she has held posts at Cambridge University and academic institutions in the Netherlands, Belgium and the United States.
Further details about Yvonne can be found on our website: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/44735/

Cost: free

Enquiries and booking

No need to book.

The exhibition is free to attend and open to all

When arriving, please go to the information table in the atrium of the Alison Richard Building to find details about the exhibition and a list of works.

Enquiries: Art at the ARB Website Email: enquiries@crassh.cam.ac.uk Telephone: 01223747471

Timing

In person

9:00am-7:00pm on weekdays from Monday 11 November until Friday 6 December

9:00am-5:00pm on weekdays from Sunday 8 December until Friday 20 December

All times

Mon 11 November 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Tue 12 November 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Wed 13 November 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Thu 14 November 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Fri 15 November 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Mon 18 November 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Tue 19 November 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Wed 20 November 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Thu 21 November 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Fri 22 November 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Mon 25 November 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Tue 26 November 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Wed 27 November 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Thu 28 November 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Fri 29 November 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Mon 2 December 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Tue 3 December 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Wed 4 December 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Thu 5 December 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Fri 6 December 2024 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Mon 9 December 2024 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Tue 10 December 2024 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Wed 11 December 2024 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Thu 12 December 2024 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Fri 13 December 2024 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Mon 16 December 2024 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Tue 17 December 2024 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Wed 18 December 2024 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Thu 19 December 2024 9:00AM - 5:00PM
Fri 20 December 2024 9:00AM - 5:00PM

Venue

The Alison Richard Building is open to the public on weekdays. Please note that opening hours will change with the University Term dates.
Address: Alison Richard Building
7 West Road
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire
CB3 9DP
United Kingdom
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Email: enquiries@crassh.cam.ac.uk
Telephone: 01223747471
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