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For My Only Love, Yours in Body and Soul
2022-10-07 10:00 to 2022-11-06 16:00
7th October 2022
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God’s House Tower is pleased to present For My Only Love, Yours in Body and Soul, a new solo exhibition by London-based multidisciplinary artist Ebun Sodipo.
“For this project, I am interested in the changing attitudes towards Africans and their descendants in Southampton between the 16th and 20th century. I plan to explore these attitudes through a fictional love story between a woman living in Southampton and her lover who is always at sea. To write this love story I have been exploring some of the lives of Southampton residents in this time period. This love story will be told across love letters, ‘found’ in the Southampton archives and presented as collage and audio text.”
For My Only Love, Yours in Body and Soul is on display at GHT from Friday 7th October until Sunday 6th November and is free to visit.
You can listen to an interview with artist Ebun Sodipo and ‘a space’ arts Creative Programme Manager Mia Delve by pressing the play button below.
Access
This exhibition will take place in the Main Gallery located on the first floor and the Project Space on the mezzanine level, in which wheelchair access is available via a lift.
We have created a large print version of the exhibition guide which you can download ahead of your visit (click here)
For any other access enquiries, head to our access page (click here)
About the Artist
Ebun makes work for those who will come after: the black trans people of the future. Her interdisciplinary practice narrates her construction of a black trans-feminine self after slavery and colonialism. Through a process of fragmentation, collage, and fabulation, she devises softer, other- wise ways of imagining and speaking about the body, desire, archives, and the past.
Ebun’s work has been featured at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning Centre, Bernie Grants Arts Centre, Narrative Projects, Raven Row, The Block Museum of Art, South London Gallery, Arcadia Missa’s How To Sleep Faster, Auto Italia, ICA, Tate Britain, Embassy Gallery, Wasafiri, CCA Annex, Camden Arts Centre, Frieze. She was artist in residence at Porthmeor Studios, and Gasworks. She is currently working on commissions for VISUAL Carlow, FACT Liverpool. She also teaches at Falmouth University.
