Join us on February 6 at 6:30pm for a conversation with artist Mark Corfield-Moore and Kunsthall Stavanger Curator Heather Jones.
Corfield-Moore's exhibition We Speak Chicken is currently on view at Kunsthall Stavanger through February 9. Corfield-Moore is a painter who incorporates weaving as a means of translation and play. With a distinctive visual language, recognisable through the use of bold colour and interplay of image and text, he creates works instilled with wit, whimsy and intimacy. Drawing upon personal and collective histories, as well as his experience as part of the British-Thai diaspora, Corfield-Moore examines the unreliability of human memory, allowing past events to take on a life of their own in the present.
The conversation will touch on the major themes presented in the exhibition as well as Corfield-Moore's use of imagery, the weaving technique of ikat, and poetic methodologies.
The event is free and open to the public.
The conversation will be conducted in English.
Mark Corfield-Moore: We Speak Chicken is organised 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).