Charlotte Hodes at Hestercombe Contemporary Art Gallery, Hestercombe, Somerset 2 March - 28 June 2020
02/03/2020
Charlotte Hodes at Hestercombe Contemporary Art Gallery, Hestercombe, Somerset 2 March - 28 June 2020
Most Admirably Improved by Art
A group exhibition that includes Hodes’ installation After the Taking of Tea first exhibited at Ruthin Craft Centre in 2019. After the Taking of Tea presents multiple groupings of china ware on which the imagery plays with notions of tea and teatime, its historical importance in polite society and its contemporary role in which formality for the most part has been overturned. The women make an appearance to playfully defy historical conventions. They stand on teapots, use tea sieves as mirrors and microphones, and nonchalantly walk across or rest upon the surfaces of tea crockery. The texts appear around some of the edges of the ware, as incidental notes that reference literature, politics and the economics of tea.