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HELEN CAMMOCK — I DECIDED I WANT TO WALK

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Now in its final week, Helen Cammock’s current London show I DECIDED I WANT TO WALK features her film They Call It Idlewild as well as a set of new screen prints and a calico banner.

Cammock explores social histories through film, photography, print, text, song and performance. She is motivated by her commitment to questioning mainstream historical narratives around Blackness, womanhood, wealth, power, poverty and vulnerability. Mining her own biography in addition to the histories of oppression and resistance, multiple and layered narratives reveal the cyclical construct of histories.*

HELEN CAMMOCK—I DECIDED I WANT TO WALK*

Through October 17.

Kate MacGarry

27 Old Nichol Street, Shoreditch, London.

Helen Cammock, I Decided I Want to Walk, Kate MacGarry, September 10, 2020–October 17, 2020. Images courtesy and © the artist and Kate MacGarry.

MOURNING — ON LOSS AND CHANGE

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MOURNING—ON LOSS AND CHANGE, curated by Brigitte Kölle, looks at death and grief through the eyes and works of nearly thirty contemporary artists.

Participants include Bas Jan Ader, Kudjoe Affutu, Khaled Barakeh, Christian Boltanski, Helen Cammock, Anne Collier, Johannes Esper, Sibylle Fendt, Seiichi Furuya, Paul Fusco, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Aslan Ġoisum, Ragnar Kjartansson, Maria Lassnig, Jennifer Loeber, Ataa Oko, Adrian Paci, Philippe Parreno, Susan Philipsz, Greta Rauer, Willem de Rooij, Michael Sailstorfer, Thomas Schütte, Dread Scott, Rein Jelle Terpstra, Rosemarie Trockel, Tilman Walther, and Andy Warhol.

Cammock—recent joint winner of the Turner Prize—makes her German debut with the exhibition, which includes a sound piece produced by Philipsz that “revives the old mourning tradition of keening in the atrium of the Gallery of Contemporary Art.”*

A bilingual exhibition booklet can be viewed here.

MOURNING—ON LOSS AND CHANGE*

Through June 14.

Hamburger Kunsthalle

Glockengiesserwall 5, Hamburg.

Mourning—On Loss and Change, Hamburger Kunsthalle, February 7–June 14, 2020 , from top: Maria Lassnig, Balken im Auge / Trauernde Hände, 1964; Khaled Barakeh, The Untitled Images, 2014; Helen Cammock, Untitled, (If You Won’t Be Touched) Shouting in Whispers, 2017; Seiichi Furuya, Mémoires, 2012; Ragnar Kjartansson, God, 2007; Paul Fusco, RFK Funeral Train, 1968/2019; Andy Warhol, Jackie, 1964; Anne Collier, Woman Crying (Comic) #8, 2019. Images courtesy and © the artists (and their estates and galleries), the photographers, and Hamburger Kunsthalle.