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Shadow Shame Again (2021) by Penny Siopis | Peltz Gallery Commissions

Commissioned by Peltz Gallery, Birkbeck, University of London, 2021. Audio description for this work will be available here    • Audio description: Shadow Shame Again (202...   Penny Siopis (South Africa) creates work across various media exploring memory, migration, shame and grief. In Britain, she has exhibited at Tate Modern, the British Museum and the Freud Museum. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many people in South Africa have protested ‘the other pandemic’, referring to the proliferation of gender-based violence under the conditions of lockdown. Material published by UN Women shows that gender-based violence has increased globally during this time. Penny Siopis’ video artwork responds to this situation by speaking to the visceral emotion of shame. Using footage from her collection of found 8mm home movies (acquired from flea markets and charity shops), Siopis sets fragments of image sequences to words and sound. The work is a poetic evocation of ‘shadow shame’ as something that both embodies the loss of dignity and integrity, and offers fertile ground for empathy. About Penny Siopis Penny Siopis is a South African artist who is also honorary professor at the Michaelis School of Fine Art, UCT. Working across media, all her explorations, whether with body-politics, memory, migration and grief or the relations between the human and the non-human, are characterized by what she calls the ‘poetics of vulnerability’ – embodied in the play between materiality and reference. Amongst her many international exhibitions are her work ‘Obscure White Messenger’ (2010) exhibited at Tate Britain in 2018, and her exhibition Three Essays on Shame at the Freud Museum in 2005. About Peltz Gallery Located in Bloomsbury, Peltz Gallery was founded at Birkbeck in 2013. Our commissions combine artistic practice and academic research, and are uniquely driven by questions about the world around us. Our exhibitions profile the work of emerging and established artists from the UK and internationally, bringing rare and underexplored subjects to public view. Our 2019 exhibitions included Refugees, Newcomers, Citizens: Migration Stories from Picture Post,1938-56, Leonardo da Vinci and Perpetual Motion: Visualising Impossible Machines, and Art at the Frontier of Film Theory: Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen - a range of topics characteristic of the Peltz’s eclectic programming. Peltz Gallery continues to support artists in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since July 2020, we have commissioned artists to create artworks at home to be shared with audiences online under the heading Lessons from Lockdown. bbk.ac.uk/research/centres/peltz-gallery | @peltzgallery | facebook.com/peltzgallerybbk/ About Birkbeck Founded in 1823, Birkbeck, University of London, is a world-class research and teaching institution, a vibrant centre of academic excellence and London's only specialist provider of evening higher education. Our evening teaching allows students to progress their life goals during the day, through work, volunteering or internships. In 2020, we celebrated 100 years of joining the University of London. www.bbk.ac.uk | @BirkbeckUoL |    / birkbeckvideo