Matter(ing) is an exhibition that brings together recent works of Lily German, Sebastian Sochan and Abigail Brothers. Through sculpture and performance these three artists investigate ideas of materiality and the outcome of enabling materials to drive the creation of work.

The artists share interest in suspending the usual function of commonplace materials. Instead these materials become an extension of gesture and thought, leading the artists in some cases to an almost synaesthetic collapse of expected sensory cues. Wet clay flops, cotton fibres fray, plaster cracks, foam inflates, sugar crystallizes.

Abigail Brothers digs into the power and ability that material's have to embody themselves, or something from a distant memory. Lily German activates clay forms through vocal performance, examining the vulnerability and physicality of voice and wet clay. Sebastian Sochan’s instinctual sculptural works explores the emotive and humble quality of materials, testing their borders between fragility and robustness

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A series of events and performances will run alongside the exhibition. Visit Platform Southwark’s Facebook and Platform Southwark’s Instagram page for further information.

Sat 16 Feb, 2pm 'Material Matters' - Talk and workshop with Laura White. Laura will give a talk about her relationship to materiality through projects she has done and her own research. This will be followed by a hands on materiality workshop, Touching - not seeing | Seeing - not touching

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/33910