IN ANOTHER LIFE - Molly Wickett

Through sculpture and installation, Molly Wickett’s first solo exhibition 'In Another Life!' reimagines the apocalypse and queer utopias through an ecological lens.

This exploration takes place in the surviving industrial Barrowland weaving factory, now Strange Field. Drawing on ideas surrounding crip time, the sculptures emerge as a reimagined and altered post-apocalyptic landscape of regrowth and hope. Reimagining utopia offers a catalyst through which we can critique the present moment.

These forms of futuristic world-building are contextualised within the capacity to imagine otherwise, using natural and artificial elements to build on disabled, queer, and feminist understandings of time and space as ‘other’.

This new body of work builds on research exploring dystopias, disability and ecology. The work will be shown alongside texts that informed this, including 'Cruising Utopia' by José Esteban Muñoz, 'Feminist, Queer, Crip' by Alison Kafer and 'How to Live at the End of the World' by Travis Holloway.