The Spring to Come
Exhibition.
The Poetry Library at Royal Festival Hall, 2016-17
A site-specific installation that interrogated the tensions between images and words, The Spring to Come unravelled the story of an aspiring poet and his attempts to deal with the reality of war through imagination and language.
Using a range of media and translation tools to interpret and respond to private and public archival materials and The Poetry Library collection, the installation harnessed diverse voices, modes and registers of speech to consider the image of language as it controls, meanders, and imagines.
An artist book – now in the Library collection – was launched during the exhibition. It included new artwork, as well as texts by a range of academics contextualising the project*.*
Private view 4 October 2016 included audio performance structured by Ian Powell and performed by Adio West, Ian Powell and Matt Lewis.
The exhibition was the final chapter of a three-part multidisciplinary project that included two other solo exhibitions by Harasymowicz at Centrala Gallery, Birmingham and narrative projects, London, curated by Dominik Czechowski and supported by Arts Council England, Polish Cultural Institute and UAL London.
The exhibition ran Wednesday 5 October 2016 – Tuesday 10 January 2017.
