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Join the Whitechapel Gallery and Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq for a BSL-Led tour of Lygia Clark x Sonia Boyce.
This Autumn, Whitechapel Gallery presents two exhibitions especially conceived to be in dialogue with each other. Lygia Clark: The I and the You and Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation explore pivotal moments in the artists’ careers, where each began experimenting with participatory practices.
Although separated by time and geography, and working in different cultural and socio-political contexts, the artists share a deep interest in addressing and shifting the relationship between artist, artwork and audiences, often inviting direct engagement with their works, including touch, manipulation, even inhabitation. By pairing the two artists in this way, audiences are invited to reflect on both the similarities and differences in their works and approaches, while also providing a meeting point for different art histories and cultural contexts to meet.
Both shows have interactive and tactile aspects where everyone is welcome to explore the objects and materials through active participation.
Rubbena Aurangzeb-Tariq is a London-based artist and facilitator whose work concerns culture, deaf identity and, as a deaf woman of Pakistani heritage, the multi-faceted nature of being a ‘minority within a minority.
