Obsessions, Possessions
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Debashish Paul, Body as a Landscape Body in a Landscape, Single-Channel Video, 2021/22. Courtesy: Emami Art
The impulse to collect is tied to our desire for meaning, belonging and understanding of ourselves and of society.
Coventry Biennial 2025 facilitates a collective exploration of the roles and functions of collecting within the art, museum, heritage and knowledge production sectors, as well as in the wider community and the artists’ studio.
This major group exhibition brings together new artworks that reimagine and take inspiration from collections and archives and the works in this exhibition are especially focused on family archives, and queer identities and practices.
A number of the artists additionally respond to the history and context of the site, ranging from its religious role as a medieval monastic house, to the work of its Georgian occupier who ran a seed distribution business, to its more contemporary use as parkland.
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* Tuomo Manninen’s works can be found across a number of Coventry Biennial venues, please ask our Building Supervisors for more information.
This exhibition is generously supported by Arts Council England, Historic Coventry Trust and SAHA.
Additional support has been kindly provided by New Art Gallery Walsall, Multi-Story, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, Walsall Council, Coventry City Council, British Council, Emami Art, Warwickshire County Council and Conflux Events.
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