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In this exhibition, British artists Andrew Bick, Jonathan Parsons and Katie Pratt place nine positions in a visual dialogue about past and present aspects of social and political systems. The curators have been working together for years on projects that address the legacy of painting, systems and constructive art in contemporary art. Alongside their own positions are critical, dissenting and at times playful approaches to the central questions of the exhibition. Analysis, Disruption, System is not a ‘political show’ in terms of its framework and central address.  However, it celebrates the social analysis of system from the viewpoint of artists as well as taking delight in the humour, disruption, and the ability to step back and comment that is an artists’ prerogative in any healthy cultural examination of political structures. Naturally such delight is rooted in haptic experience and a focus on the way things are made. As much as jokes depend on the way they are told, the inherent materiality of visual art as a proposition is a concern this exhibition is very happy to emphasise.

Analysis, Disruption, System
ARTROOM SCHROTH, Museum Wilhelm Morgner. Soest, Germany
10 September to 19 November

Opening on Saturday, 9 September 2023, 5 pm
Greeting: Christiane Mackensen, Deputy Mayor of the City of Soest
Andrew Bick, artist and co-curator of the exhibition

Curated by Andrew Bick, Jonathan Parsons and Katie Pratt
Works by Andrew Bick (with Ana Teles) | Katrina Blannin | Arnaud Desjardin/The Everyday Press | Tanya Goel | Clare Goodwin | Jonathan Parsons | Katie Pratt | Giulia Ricci | Jeffrey Steele

Fig.: Clare Goodwin, Ceramic Whispers (Block), 2022 © Clare Goodwin, Photo Lullin+Ferrari Gallery Zürich