A gig on Friday 4th November. The event starts at 19:00.
Swan Songs
Lucia Sellars
November 4 – 6
Centrespace Art Gallery: 6 Leonard Lane Bristol BS1 1EA
Open daily: 11am – 6pm
Opening: Friday 4th Nov. 7pm – 9.30pm LIVE MUSIC with:
Carnivorous Plants/ " Expect some thick, dense, blown-out guitar drones and transcendental vocalisations. Properly meditative, soul-nourishing stuff" (https://carnivorousplants.bandcamp.com) and
Robin Foster/ Rummaging, playing a vibration in the rhythm of the universe! (www.robinfoster.net).
Free entrance or pay-what-you-can.
We are born to die; yet, how many times do we die in a lifetime? Small deaths surround us: a loss, an ending, a heartbreak, a ‘Petit Mort’, a deep sleep, an accident, a disenchantment, an achievement, a night. We go through our lives in a journey between mountains and gullies, where to reach either provokes the sensation of a small death inside us, or a rebirth.
The title Swan Songs comes from the ancient belief that swans sing a beautiful song just before their death for they were silent all through their lifetime. What is death though, but a rebirth into the unknown, like a river meeting the vast sea and not knowing what lies ahead. As Socrates says in Plato’s Phaedo: ‘… men, because of their own fear of death, misrepresent the swans and say that they sing for sorrow, in mourning for their own death. They do not consider that no bird sings when it is hungry or cold or has any other trouble; no, not even the nightingale or the swallow or the hoopoe which are said to sing in lamentation. I do not belief they sing for grief, nor do the swans; but since they are Apollo’s birds, I believe they have prophetic vision, and because they have foreknowledge of the blessings in the other world they sing and rejoice on that day more than ever before’.
Perhaps the beautiful swan song can be correlated to the epiphany that extreme joy and sorrow bring: an understanding, a letting go; either way a release. These Swan Songs: these paintings before you represent some of the small deaths and rebirths I have experienced, these being either observed from the heightened clarity at a mountain top or from the deep darkness of profound gullies.
Lucia Sellars plays with text, fine art and moving image, as well as being an environmental consultant and a quiet observer. Early this year Beir Bua Press published her poetry collection ‘The State of Moving’. Her video-poems have been screened in the UK and internationally in Greece, USA, Australia, Ireland and Russia. In April 2022 Lucia curated The Mythos Collective exhibition in Bristol.
You can see more of her work here:
www.luciasellars.org
https://www.youtube.com/luciasellars
@luciasellars1
Entry requirements:
Lucia Sellars
November 4 – 6
Centrespace Art Gallery: 6 Leonard Lane Bristol BS1 1EA
Open daily: 11am – 6pm
Opening: Friday 4th Nov. 7pm – 9.30pm LIVE MUSIC with:
Carnivorous Plants/ " Expect some thick, dense, blown-out guitar drones and transcendental vocalisations. Properly meditative, soul-nourishing stuff" (https://carnivorousplants.bandcamp.com) and
Robin Foster/ Rummaging, playing a vibration in the rhythm of the universe! (www.robinfoster.net).
Free entrance or pay-what-you-can.
We are born to die; yet, how many times do we die in a lifetime? Small deaths surround us: a loss, an ending, a heartbreak, a ‘Petit Mort’, a deep sleep, an accident, a disenchantment, an achievement, a night. We go through our lives in a journey between mountains and gullies, where to reach either provokes the sensation of a small death inside us, or a rebirth.
The title Swan Songs comes from the ancient belief that swans sing a beautiful song just before their death for they were silent all through their lifetime. What is death though, but a rebirth into the unknown, like a river meeting the vast sea and not knowing what lies ahead. As Socrates says in Plato’s Phaedo: ‘… men, because of their own fear of death, misrepresent the swans and say that they sing for sorrow, in mourning for their own death. They do not consider that no bird sings when it is hungry or cold or has any other trouble; no, not even the nightingale or the swallow or the hoopoe which are said to sing in lamentation. I do not belief they sing for grief, nor do the swans; but since they are Apollo’s birds, I believe they have prophetic vision, and because they have foreknowledge of the blessings in the other world they sing and rejoice on that day more than ever before’.
Perhaps the beautiful swan song can be correlated to the epiphany that extreme joy and sorrow bring: an understanding, a letting go; either way a release. These Swan Songs: these paintings before you represent some of the small deaths and rebirths I have experienced, these being either observed from the heightened clarity at a mountain top or from the deep darkness of profound gullies.
Lucia Sellars plays with text, fine art and moving image, as well as being an environmental consultant and a quiet observer. Early this year Beir Bua Press published her poetry collection ‘The State of Moving’. Her video-poems have been screened in the UK and internationally in Greece, USA, Australia, Ireland and Russia. In April 2022 Lucia curated The Mythos Collective exhibition in Bristol.
You can see more of her work here:
www.luciasellars.org
https://www.youtube.com/luciasellars
@luciasellars1
Entry requirements:
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