All that is fluid melts into air acts as a new solo exhibition by Candice Jacobs.

The title of the exhibition comments on the book ‘All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity’ by Marshall Berman, who interprets modernization through processes of dreaming, loving and developing, which connect to the vision of this new exhibition by Candice Jacobs. Much like Berman, Jacobs uses text & poetry to analyze the self-destructive nature of modernisation.

Clambering through a crystalline structure heavy with the burden of our worries, shining with hints of neon into glistening pools of screens that move around to track & trace the bodies & words that flow through dying exotic waters ‘All that is fluid melts into air' expands on new understandings of the body through motherhood & how this connects to ideas of fluidity, liquidity & stability; the economy, the climate & the internet.

• Private View: Thursday 9 March, 4:00PM–7:00PM

Open:

10–26 March 2023 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday only).

• Fri & Sat: 12:00PM–6:00PM
• Sun: 12:00PM–4:00PM

The exhibition centres around a papier-mâché crystalline sculpture created in collaboration with local mothers & people who identify as mothers or who are in the primary position of care, and their children.

Workshops will take place on 16th & 21st Feb at Broadway Gallery and are being delivered in collaboration with Khaya Job, founder of the zine Femme Fatale Gals.

In the sculpture, made of recycled tax returns and as much recycled paper we can muster connected to the economy, we will embed our thoughts on how our experience of “m-otherhood” is connected to wellness, the cost of living, climate and the concept of “liquid modernity” — a metaphor written by Zygmunt Bauman that describes the condition of constant mobility and change that he sees in relationships, identities, and global economics within contemporary society. We will set affirmations to let go of our anxieties by placing them directly into the sculpture so that it (instead of us) can carry the burden of our shared realities and swallow the stress for a minute.

Our conversations will be re-written & transformed into a poetic form of text that will sit as the script to a collection of Virtual Reality films that will be integrated into the sculpture.

Find out more about how you can get involved by emailing info@otoka.org. Book a workshop ticket online or via Broadway's box office in-person or on the phone on 0115 952 6611.

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Broadway's Gallery is located on the lower ground floor of Broadway Cinema, nestled within Broadway’s design and innovation studio spaces behind Screens 3 and 4.

The space can be accessed via Broadway's main entrance but also has direct access from Heathcoat Street.

Broadway’s design and innovation spaces are fully wheelchair accessible, with ramps and lift access from Broadway’s Box Office.

For more information, please contact gallery@broadway.org.uk.

OTOKA is a nomadic & fluid research, exhibition, residency, online platform & studio space established by artist Candice Jacobs after returning to Nottingham during the Pandemic and becoming a mother.

This new work expands out from an interview Candice Jacobs had with Tess McClure, former editor of VICE New Zealand and journalist of “Dark Crystals, the brutal reality of the wellness craze” printed in the Guardian newspaper in 2019, which you can listen to as a podcast on www.thewellnessformula.guru - a website hosting Jacobs’ most recent solo show that took place during lock-down at Five Years Gallery in London.