Mark Corfield-Moore, We Speak Chicken, 2024, Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art. Courtesy Goldsmiths CCA. Photo: Rob Harris.
Join us for the opening of Mark Corfield-Moore: We Speak Chicken.
Kunsthall Stavanger is proud to present the first exhibition in Norway by British-Thai artist Mark Corfield-Moore. Titled We Speak Chicken, the exhibition is an expanded version of a major new body of work commissioned by and exhibited at Goldsmiths CCA, London earlier this year, with new commissions created by the artist specifically for Kunsthall Stavanger. Join us for the opening on Thursday, October 24 at 6 pm.
In these works, the artist utilizes a hybrid practice of painting and weaving to render images of buildings and spaces based on his lived experience and memories of family and childhood. The exhibition’s title refers to the fact that Corfield-Moore and his Thai mother do not share a common language, but rather food and cooking become means to converse, exchange, and demonstrate love. This sense of generosity through oblique modes of communication is evident in the artist’s playful combination of text and image across each of these paintings, inviting us into their visual poetics.
Mark Corfield-Moore: We Speak Chicken is organized in partnership with Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, where it was on view from 12 April – 30 May, 2024.
Mark Corfield-Moore: We Speak Chicken is organized in partnership with Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art, London, where it was on view from 12 April – 30 May, 2024.
Mark Corfield-Moore (b. 1988) was born in Bangkok and lives and works in Hastings. Previous solo exhibitions include Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK (2024); Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne, UK (2023); Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (2022); Cob Gallery, London, UK (2021); and Wolfson College, Cambridge, UK (2018). Selected group exhibitions include Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2023); Spazio Musa, Turin, Italy (2023); Galerie Slika, Lyon, France (2023); Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2022), Swedish Institute, Paris, France (2022), Royal Academy of Art, London, UK (2022); Turner House, Cardiff, UK (2021), Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich, Germany (2021), Platform Southwark, London, UK (2021); New Art Centre, Salisbury (2020), Plain Gallery, Milan, Italy (2020), Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK (2020).