Artist-in-Residence opening talk: Uriel Orlow

St John's is delighted to be welcoming Uriel Orlow as our new Artist in Residence for Trinity Term 2022. Uriel will be beginning his residency with a talk at our Barn Gallery space, which will also act as his studio for the duration of the residency.

Uriel Orlow’s practice is research-based, process-oriented and often in dialogue with other disciplines. Projects emerge out of concerns with spatial manifestations of memory, residues of colonialism, social and ecological justice, blind spots of representation and our entanglements with plants. Working across photography, film, drawing and sound his works bring different image-regimes and narrative modes into correspondence. 

Uriel Orlow’s work has been presented at major survey exhibitions including the 54th Venice Biennale, Manifesta 9 & 12, British Art Show 9, Kathmandu Triennale 2077, Lubumbashi Biennial VI, 13th Sharjah Biennial, 7th Moscow Biennial, 8th Mercosul Biennial, Aichi Triennale and Bergen Assembly amongst others. Recent solo exhibitions include Kunsthalle Nairs (2021), La Loge, Brussels; State of Concept, Athens (both 2020), Kunsthalle Mainz (2019-2020), Tabakalera, San Sebastian and Villa Romana Florence (2019), Kunsthalle St Gallen, Market Photo Workshop Johannesburg and Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers Paris (2018). 

Monographic publications include Conversing with Leaves (Archive Books, 2020), Soil Affinities (Shelter Press, 2019) and Theatrum Botanicum (Sternberg Press, 2018).

The event is open to the public, and all are welcome. Drinks will be served after the talk.