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.

This project received support from Creative Scotland and Neuk Collective, who will additionally be supplying access loan equipment.

Quiet Exhibition Preview: Saturday, February 15th – 3pm – 6pm
Main Preview: Saturday, February 15th – 6pm – 9pm

‘In Another Life’ will be on display between Saturday, February 15th and Thursday, February 20th.