Overview

We exist in a fine web of relationships , between family, friends, lovers, within community and between nations. Such networks support us, keep us aloft, providing an anchor and steadying line during upheaval.

Sometimes these very strictures can be binding and suffocating, constraining our growth against our will, enforcing duties and obligations, and behavior conforms. The tenets of these relationships are shaped by tradition, culture, religion, politics and the times.

 Tying the knot whilst signifying a bond also invariably speaks of an entanglement. 

And then there is nothing that ties us down more than our own thoughts that come from a sense of identity or role.

 This exhibition brings together 7 artists who delve into the complexity of the state of Bind/Bound. Across generations and backgrounds the artists consider how their own worldview is shaped in response to a diversity of contexts. There are multiple perspectives at play, demonstrating diverse viewpoints and responses that exist when gazing across similar issues. Each bearing witness to their experiences of how fragile the ties that bind us really are.

The exhibition investigates a more specific visuality of the oppressiveness of the culture and social diktats on us and exposes the position of vulnerability that haunts us in relationships of dominance/subservience.