with fists, it kicks, it bites

Collective Degree Show of RCA 2020

Curator
Hannah Watson

18.8.2020 - 22.8.2020

The Fitzrovia Chapel

A collaboration between The Royal College of Art (RCA) and four Fitzrovia art spaces – TJ Boulting, Edel Assanti, Webber Gallery, and the historic Fitzrovia Chapel – with fists, it kicks, it bites presents work by artists graduating in 2020 from the RCA’s MA Photography course.

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the RCA had to cancel its physical degree shows and move them online. Recognising how vital a physical degree show can be, the Fitzrovia galleries came together to stage a group exhibition across their spaces, as a way of offering students a platform to display their work in public. The galleries have previously worked with or represent RCA Photography alumni – in particular TJ Boulting with Dominic Hawgood and Edel Assanti with Noémie Goudal – leading to the decision to focus on this year’s MA Photography graduates.

The resulting exhibition showcases the calibre of artists graduating from the RCA, as well as the breadth and assertive experimentalism of contemporary photographic and video art.

- The Net Gallery

"To The Fog" is a a requiem, farewell speech, and memorial to a loss in the pandemic.

We are facing the new reality, where we have lost our sense of direction in time and space. The loss of a family member is a private tragedy, but it becomes public when it's due to COVID-19, and is unreal in this reality. This is a resistance, in a way, to how the politics, economy and ethics that separate us. To the fog, Tateisi expresses his experience that public and private, real and unreal are entangled.

with fists, it kicks, it bites

The Fitzrovia Chapel

Aug 18th - Aug 22nd 2020

Curation

Hannah Watson