​ISABEL YOUNG

‘Solo Exhibition in the Metaverse Art Space’ 

With Circular Artspace

https://www.cistaarts.com/timethepassageoftimeandcyclesoflife

Exhibition dates: 16.12.24 - 05.01.25

https://circularartspace.co.uk/solovr

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‘Solo Exhibition in the Metaverse Art Space’ is a virtual reality exhibition of Isabel Young’s expanded paintings, drawings and burial works, in exploration of the accumulation of cultural time to be exhumed in the contemporary Metaverse. In this curious reversal of time, the exhibition includes pieces referencing her recent fieldwork in the ancient dwellings of the Pompeii Archaeological site, vernacular architecture in South-East England, the Neolithic sites of Brittany, Jersey and Orkney, and the experimental buildings of Butser Ancient Farm. Historic spaces are reimagined here as ‘Monuments’ in recognition of the house and associated rituals as a repository of material culture and interface between home, its lineage of inhabitants and non-human assemblages. This exhibition journeys immense tracts of time researching how people have lived differently over time giving insights into different ways of being in the world, and into the place that we find ourselves in today.

 

As a platform to explore how we interpret and understand the world, the VR project is simultaneously a working construct of the past reimagined for the present.

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