Exhibition:unCHunASunEDunLOunSSunES - By Sean Edwards
How do we process memory, class, and the expectations placed upon us—especially when so much is left unsaid?
This exhibition presents work acquired by Amgueddfa Cymru from the exhibition Undo Things Done - when Sean Edwards represented Wales at the Venice Biennale in 2019.
Shown layered across a more recent body of work called Chased Losses, this new installation makes multiple references to childhood memory, familial relationships and a shared condition of ‘not expecting much’.
These themes are explored in work across media including sculpture, textile, painting and print. The letters ‘un’, drawn from the masthead of The Sun newspaper, is a recurring motif that links works together, repeating into what Edwards has described as a social stutter, a marker for the uncertainties of negotiating life from a working-class background. Much of the work, composed of fragments or slices of imagery gesture to the circularity of social and personal issues left unaddressed and respond to the artefacts of behaviour and memory we try to leave behind.
Sean Edwards
Sean Edwards was born in Cardiff in 1980 and studied at Cardiff School of Art & Design and Slade School of Fine Art. He has exhibited nationally and internationally including Chapter, Cardiff and Spike Island, Bristol and Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin as well as representing Wales at the 58th Venice Biennale. In 2020 He was awarded the Turner Prize Bursary. Edwards is now Programme Director for Fine Art & Photography at Cardiff School of Art & Design and is represented by Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin.
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