KINU #5: IMOGEN STIDWORTHY

KINU advocates Ainara Elgoibar and Usue Arrieta explained that: “Since its creation, KINU Work Group members have been interested in inviting an artist they can work with in-depth on audiovisual sound dimension, namely the audio. In response to this wish, KINU#5 is dedicated to Imogen Stidworthy, in whose work, language and voice play a central role. For Imogen, voice is a sculptural spatial matter, something we use daily to locate ourselves culturally and physically. Her works delve into the fragility of language, tending to situations where words are unstable, become exhausted or fail, and exploring other forms of comprehension arising in said situations.”

Imogen Stidworthy’s work comes in formats such as films, sound works and multimedia stations involving sound video, sculptural and technological elements. To this effect, her work generally kicks off from meetings with people whose relationship with language is in some way radically affected due to life experiences, cultural practices (Shamanism, ventriloquism) and neurological or physical (aphasia, non-verbal autism) conditions.

Distirak#5 writing will be done by Ohiane Iraguen (Bilbao, 1985) whose recent work is also closely connected to sound and performance.

Imogen Stidworthy’s work has been shown at important exhibitions, such as Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead, Bergen Assembly 2019, the Suzhou Biennial (2016), Imperial War Museum, London (2015), Sao Paulo Biennial (2014), Museum Leeuwarden (2014), Bergen Triennial (2013). Monday Begins on Saturday (2013), Total Museum of Cont. Art, Seoul (2013), Busan Biennial (2012), 52nd October Salon, Belgrade (2011), Documenta 12, Kassel (2007), and individual exhibitions at Netwerk, Aalst (2019), Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (2018), AKINCI, Amsterdam (2013, 2009, 2005), Matts Gallery, London; (2011, 2003), The Arnolfini, Bristol, and Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck (2010-11).