The exhibition is open Monday to Fridays and is free admission.
Pulsing and transformative energies course through this exhibition of landscape paintings. Derived from photographs of the mountains of New Zealand, South Africa and Patagonia, Lola Frost's paintings unsettle the distinction between landscape and body and open up precarious encounters that are shaped by desire, vulnerability and interconnection. Here we are not ourselves. An emancipatory project, her art practice re-engages the disruptive potential of sublime landscape painting as a riposte to the regulating and instrumental impulses of our time.
Events Programme:
Thursday 24th May, 17.30 – 19.00: Sensuality and the Sublime? with Dr Claire Yorke and Pints and Pages. King’s Reading Group members only.
Wednesday 30th May, 17.30 – 19.00: The Ethics of Impropriety and Precarious Encounters. Collaboration between Dr Elke Schwarz, Anja Henckel and Lola Frost. Open to the general public. RSVP via Eventbrite
International relations scholar and dancer Dr Elke Schwarz, in conversation with artist Lola Frost, will sketch what might be ethically at stake in the improper sublime landscape paintings on show in this exhibition, and how these paintings open up precarious encounters that are shaped by desire, vulnerability and interconnection. International Curator Anja Henckel will open up these issues for discussion and audience participation.
Saturday 9th June, 14.45 – 16.15: Aesthetic Risk: Subverting the subject of the landscape. King’s Alumni workshop with Lola Frost. Alumni participants only.
This workshop is taking place as part of King’s Alumni Weekend, running 8 – 10 June 2018. Tickets can be bought for just £15, which permit access to a whole weekend of special events. Book now via Eventbrite.
Thursday 14th June, 17.30 – 19.00: Beyond Time: spatiality, aesthetic language and humanity with Dr Pablo de Orellana, Tally de Orellana and Lola Frost. Open to the general public. RSVP via Eventbrite
Lola Frost's paintings open up a discussion on space, time and the unexpected place of humanity therein. In this talk art historian and curator Tally de Orellana will explore the aesthetic language of these works, situating the spectator in these metaphorical landscapes. Pablo de Orellana then relates these paintings to wider ideas of narrative and infinite oscillation in space-time. These are ultimately constructs that come alive as precarious events in Frost's painterly aesthetic language. From here Lola Frost will explore the relation between embodied humanity and the calls of the non-human landscape.
Dr Lola Frost is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, where she is the convenor for an MA module on Art and War.
For more information about Lola Frost, please visit her website and twitter.
The Arcade at Bush House is part of the Cultural Quarter at King's, and is home to a varied programme of events, installations and exhibitions, offering a forum where students, the academic community and the public can engage with each other, as well as with artists and cultural partners.