Uhtceare, February 2022
Stow College Life Room
Rowan Bazley, Yilin Lin, Nancy Pilkington, Amanda Seibaek
Uhtceare is an old English word that describes the feeling of grief or anxiety expereinced just before dawn. Mark Forsyth secribes the feeling as when you “wake up too early and you cant get back to sleep becasue you’re worried about the day to come.”
The exhibition gathers ecstatic memories or methaphors of loss, trains of though, strings of blue and sounds of the sea.
In Seibaeks Lithographs, figures are swallowed up and shattered by the cosmic force of the weather, while Pilkington’s materials and compiled voices evoke fragility and longing.
The works co-exist like bodies underwater, summoning a world shaped by universal but uniquely different experiences of loss. It is through our relationality that we are made most vulnerable and alive.
The artists in this exhibition do not indulge in sadness and grief, but partake in a wobbly process of repair.