Speculative Origins | group show

The 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙊𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙨 exhibition is part of Gossamer Fog's XP+10 Weekender, celebrating their 10 year anniversary.

Location: Alt_R, Enclave 1-2, 50 Resolution Way, Deptford, SE8 4AL

Featuring works from:
Emma Papworth / Iris Apostolou / Joey Holder / Minghao Wu

3i/ATLAS - the name of a comet which passed through our solar system almost exactly a year before the opening of this exhibition - suspected to be older than the Solar System itself.

𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘴 takes this idea - an object approaching the earth from unknown origins and across such a remote and alien dimension of space and time - as its starting point for examining the proliferation of speculative origins and heretical outsider forms of knowing.

The show examines what else is re-revealed in these twisted theories of knowing; the hall-of-mirrors truths tapped into by conspiracists understandings, and what happens when we imagine ourselves within other outside genealogies and folkloric epistemologies; the product of alien, infernal or extradimensional origins...

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England