Summer Exhibitions at No.9 Cork Street

Frieze No.9 Cork Street continues its summer programme with two new shows. From 21–22 July, Counterpoints Arts, Dover Arts Development, Shubbak Festival and Frieze No.9 Cork Street present I’d search forever, I want to remember by Tamara Al-Mashouk. Showing 27 July–12 August, Ben Broome curates two exhibitions: Stéphanie Brossard’s ‘Notre Dame Des Laves’ and Jesús Hilario-Reyes’s ‘Waywardly in Low Tide’.

21–22 July

Tamara Al-Mashouk, I’d search forever, I want to remember

Presented by Counterpoints Arts, Dover Arts Development, Shubbak Festival and Frieze No.9 Cork Street

Following a site-specific presentation in Dover this June, Tamara Al-Mashouk’s multi-disciplinary work will show at No.9 Cork Street for four days. Incorporating a three-channel film of a disused refugee detention centre, a photographic series that engages with the shoreline as a site of poetic multiplicity and a wave machine containing water from the English Channel, I’d search forever, I want to remember continues Al-Mashouk’s exploration of sites of solace and memory, and spaces of collective healing against the backdrop of the refugee crisis. Artefacts created during workshops in Dover will be on display, and there will a dance performance by Fadi Giha on the opening night, July 20.

27 July–12 August

Stéphanie Brossard, ‘Notre Dame Des Laves’

Curated by Ben Broome

Ben Broome curates two shows this summer with materials and change at their hearts. Stéphanie Brossard’s ‘Notre Dame Des Laves’ presents the work of the artist for the first time in the UK. Its two large installations focus on the anthropology and ecology of her home, the volcanic island of La Réunion in the Indian Ocean. Glissement de terrain and Rendez-vous speak to geological eruptions and the violence of displacement in the French colony. The title ‘Notre Dame Des Laves’ (‘Our Lady of the Lava’) refers to a church which was miraculously spared in 1977 when lava split to flow around it. Brossard uses sand, marble and movement to explore the mutation and fragmentation of her culture and landscape.

27 July–12 August

Jesús Hilario-Reyes, ‘Waywardly in Low Tide’

Curated by Ben Broome

‘Waywardly in Low Tide’ is a series of sculptural works by Puerto-Rican and Dominican artist Jesús Hilario-Reyes, which employ sound installation, cement, metal, salt, and dehydrated hog bladders. Its motifs of the mangrove, the hurricane and the carnival interrogate ideas of Black and queer flight. The artist identifies an entanglement between the mangrove tree and the fugitive condition, with adaptability and transformation integral to the survival of both plant and migrant, while the hurricane – a blurred centrifuge revolving around a still nucleus – is a common motif in Hilario-Reyes’s work, its erosive power seen in the weathering of his metal sculptures. Bouquets of inflated hog-bladders, traditionally used to ward off evil spirits, are adorned with hosiery and fetish wear, paying homage to the transient nature of queer nightlife. In these works, Hilario-Reyes constructs a shrine to the fugitive, the migrant and the raver in one or many embodiments.

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^{Main image: Tamara Al-Mashouk, I’d search forever, I want to remember}