et al

17 September - 23 October 2016

Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London, UK

et al is Simon Pope’s third solo-exhibition at Danielle Arnaud, gathering together a series of participatory artworks produced between 2013 and 2016. As in A Common Third (2010) sociality, taking-part, and dialogue are recurrent themes; a further preoccupation being the human relation to the ‘more-than-human’, introduced in What Cannot Be Turned Aside (2012). Here, emphasis is placed on the kinships and solidarities of more-than-human communities, made apparent through tracing the material relations of a coal-sample, tin deposits, a glacial erratic, a scrap of bronze-age linen, and the charred remains of a fibreglass sculpture. This new body of work promotes an 'ever closer union' and the possibility of politics between heterogenous participants, even in the face of increasing isolationism and withdrawal.

Work includes Forward Back Together (2013), Primary Agents Of A Social World (2014), A Song, A Dance, And A New Stannary Parliament (2014), The Outlier (2015), The Gift (2016), and Pinocchio's Ecological Thought (with Sarah Cullen) presented here through video-documentation, transcripts, books, and song.

The exhibition includes an essay written by Nina Wakeford [see PDF version below] and a paper by John Hammersley & Rachelle Viader Knowles.