Afterall Symposium Explores Richard Hamilton and Victor Pasmore's Display Practices

Key facts

• Elena Crippa presented 'Display as Practice: Richard Hamilton, Victor Pasmore and their Peers' at Afterall's 'Artist as Curator' symposium.
• In 1957, Richard Hamilton, Victor Pasmore, and Lawrence Alloway created an Exhibit, a maze-like environment for visitor exploration.
• The Exhibit is considered an early example of installation art.
• Hamilton's 'Growth and Form' (1951) and 'Man Machine and Motion' (1955) conceived galleries as sites for interplay of volumes and planes.
• Pasmore contributed to exhibitions of British abstract artists in the early 1950s.
• Elena Crippa is a doctoral candidate at the London Consortium and a member of Tate's 'Art School Educated' research project.
• Sharon Chin spoke about her work 'Creatures on the Move (In the Death of the Night)' (2022) in the 'Hiding in Plain Sight' programme.
• Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza discussed her work in response to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' with Afterall editor Elisa Adami and CSM Art Programme Director Alex Schady.
• The 'Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy (1974–77)' symposium took place on February 2, 2023.
• The symposium was organized by Afterall Exhibition Histories in association with the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Asia Art Archive, and the Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg.
• The event was supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.