Ikon plans year-long series of activity with Hiorns
The major solo exhibition, opening 6 December 2016 until 5 March 2017, kicks off a year of activity between Roger Hiorns and Ikon Gallery in his hometown of Birmingham.
In June 2017, Hiorns will create a site-specific work for Birmingham Cathedral involving an alternative rendition of Choral Evensong, featuring its choir performing whilst lying on their backs.
Planned for the summer is a temporary public artwork in which Hiorns will bury a Boeing 737 aeroplane on an island bounded by Birmingham’s canal network.
“It becomes a process of human empowerment to re-use and re-propose the power of objects”
In transforming our perception of everyday objects and materials, Hiorns invites us to question what we know and often take for granted.
His works have involved growing vast amounts of copper sulphate crystals on objects including car engines and domestic interiors, paintings made from brain matter – an exploration of the origins of the disease vCJD – and jet engines containing antidepressant drugs.
He says: “You always have to think about materials and objects in terms of being malleable – you have to cut them off from what their established use is, to directly interfere with their world-ness, it becomes a process of human empowerment to re-use and re-propose the power of objects simply left lying in the street.”
Visit Ikon’s website to find out more
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Images from top: Untitled, 2016, Roger Hiorns © Roger Hiorns, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016; Untitled, 2016, Roger Hiorns © Roger Hiorns, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016, Image courtesy Corvi-Mora, London; Untitled, 2016, Roger Hiorns © Roger Hiorns, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016; Untitled, 2016, Roger Hiorns © Roger Hiorns, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016; A retrospective view of the pathway, 2015, Roger Hiorns © Roger Hiorns, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016; Untitled, 2012, Roger Hiorns © Roger Hiorns, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016, Image courtesy Corvi-Mora, London; Untitled, 2011, Roger Hiorns © Roger Hiorns, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016, Image courtesy Corvi-Mora, London; Untitled (Alliance), 2010, Roger Hiorns © Roger Hiorns, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016, Image courtesy Corvi-Mora, London; Seizure, 2008, An Artangel / Jerwood Commission. Harper Road, London, Roger Hiorns © Roger Hiorns, All Rights Reserved, DACS 2016, Image courtesy Corvi-Mora, London. Photo: Marcus Leith.