S+T+ARTS RESILENCE ARIST MARCIN DUDEK ‘THE GROUND HARBOURS THE SOUL’ EXHIBITION
We are very excited to announce S+T+ARTS Resilcence residency artist MARCIN DUDEK exhibition ‘THE GROUND HARBOURS THE SOUL’ at the OOF GALLERY
DATES
6 February – 4 April
OPENING HOURS
Monday, Thursday & Friday 10am-5pm | Saturday 11am-5pm | Sunday 12-4pm
Marcin has reimagined the crowd as a single, vast body in this new OOF exhibition. Based on audio-recording trips to Tottenham Hotspur matches (alongside sound designers Mark Burman and Jon Calver), Dudek’s latest work combines sound and sculpture into an exploration of communal emotion and the power of the crowd.
The show unfolds in three acts, much like the experience of attending a football match. It opens with a splintered cork body, suspended from the ceiling, emitting the sounds of pre-match rituals and the walk to the stadium. The central gallery features a triptych covered in speakers, filling the space with recordings of football chants and supporters living through a game in real time. The final work, a helmet-like cork sculpture, allows viewers to immerse themselves in the emotions that follow a football match: the ecstatic joy of victory, the crushing disappointment of defeat.
Dudek’s work focuses on disentangling his memories of an intense, often violent past as a teenage football hooligan in Poland. By recording the sound of fans and football matches for this latest body of work, Dudek is taking viewers on a journey through traumatic memory, and the healing power of unity, using football to explore what it means to give up your individuality to become the crowd. ‘The Ground Harbours the Soul’ imagines the stadium as a place of belonging, of communal experience and mass emotion.
