Exhibition 02.05.2023–16.05.2023
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EVENT 17.05.2023 / 2.00pm–4.00pm
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Sweet Dreams Sweet
For the opening of Melati Suryodarmo’s first UK solo exhibition, Passionate Pilgrim, her two-hour delegated work Sweet Dreams Sweet (2013) is performed by a group of young women from Birmingham.
Each performer wears a white costume. In pairs, they walk, lie down, sit and dip their feet in buckets of water coloured with blue dye. This work signifies tensions between individual and collective identity for women in Indonesia and around the world.
Sweet Dreams Sweet also takes places at Ikon Gallery on 27 July, 2-4pm. The performance involves Ikon Youth Programme supported by Freelands Foundation.
This exhibition is supported by Bagri Foundation, British Council through the Connections Through Culture grants programme, Birmingham City University, University of Leeds, and the Melati Suryodarmo Exhibition Circle: A.I. Gallery; ShanghART, Tanya Michele Amador and Michiel Verhoeven; and Michelangelo and Lourdes Samson.
It is developed in collaboration with Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara (Museum MACAN), Jakarta, Indonesia.
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Event Details
This event takes place in Ikon’s Ground Floor.
Free entry, donations welcome.
No need to book, just drop in.
Suitable for all ages.
Seating available. Information on Ikon Gallery’s accessibility is available here. For additional access enquiries please contact education@ikon-gallery.org
This event is being photographed and filmed. Please speak to the photographer or filmmaker if you prefer not to be included.
VENUE
Ikon Gallery
1 Oozells Square, Brindleyplace, Birmingham B1 2HS
Image Credits
Images 1-7: Melati Suryodarmo, Sweet Dreams Sweet. Performed at Ikon Gallery (2023). Image courtesy Ikon. Photographer Tod Jones.
Image 8: Melati Suryodarmo, Sweet Dreams Sweet. Performed at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2018). Photo by Reinhard Lutz
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Events/Talk 04.06.2023 / 6.30pm–7.30pm
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Melati Suryodarmo and Present to Presence artists
Panel Discussion
Join Melati Suryodarmo and artists who have participated in the Present to Presence performance art laboratory for a panel discussion, during which they discuss their experience of taking part in the project and their concluding performances.