SELF STORAGE
An exhibition exploring the cupboards, basements, and lofts of artists and museums.
For our next upcoming exhibition SELF STORAGE Sweet ‘Art is collaborating with workers from London Museum, as well as the historic building, House of Annetta. In this exhibition, nine artists will be taking inspiration from their museum workplace, as well as from the fabric and content of the House of Annetta: marrying themes of personal and national ‘storage’.
As museum workers, the exhibiting artists engage with a vast repository of the nation’s storage of historical artifacts and objects daily, whether we frame such objects as simply the nation’s ‘knick-knacks’ or significant treasures. Each artist investigates a collective understanding that this work is not merely a neutral gathering of objects, but a practice which tells much about our society. That ‘storage’ is a way in which groups can construct identity, archive collective memory, or privilege the narratives of some with public display, while ‘storing’ away the stories of others from a public gaze. We as individuals in personal spaces, also confer value by retaining, rather than disposing of certain objects, and use acts of ‘storage’ to make space for objects or ideas to be present, ordered or manageable.
For this show, artists Chantal Makar, Edward Welch, John Chase, Jordan Furze, Mariam Hussein, Nikki Braunton, Noa Smith, Riva Boutylkova and Sam Rees have drawn upon their existing art practice to create new, site specific work utilizing materials from their own personal stores of physical items as well as personal narratives, as well as from Annetta’s basement, responding to the building as a repository of history which has been restored and reclaimed.
Join us on Thursday 2nd July for the opening party, with drinks kindly sponsored by Crate Brewery and Sipmith Gin, performances and more! We are asking people to book either an early slot (arriving at 6pm) or later slot (7.30pm) just so we have an idea of numbers in the space. As the house has strict capacity guidelines, we might have to ask you to wait if we reach capacity.
About the donation option: Our coffers are currently empty so are funding this event from our personal money. We'd love to reclaim our funds AND make a donation to House of Annetta which is a registered charity. Please donate what you can. To give you an idea, if everyone we expect to attend the PV donates £4, we reclaim our personal costs. If everyone donates £5 or more, we can also give a donation to HoA.