Shawanda Corbett : Neighbourhood Garden

16 Jun-31 Jul 2020

Overview

Tommaso Corvi-Mora is proud to present “Neighbourhood Garden”, Shawanda Corbett’s first exhibition at the gallery. Shawanda Corbett’s interdisciplinary practice addresses the question of what is a complete body, looking at the different cycles of a human’s life through cyborg theory. She uses her perspective as a woman of colour with a disability to root theory into reality. Corbett’s performances are developed around the architecture of the exhibition space. Collaborating with choreographer Albert Corbett, she responds to the performance space through a live inner dialogue. Corbett’s performances incorporate her ceramics practice; the human body, architecture, and dance leave their traces on her ceramic vessels and surfaces. With this exhibition project, she aims to reflect on her experiences growing up and on the notion of community. Corbett is pursuing a doctoral degree in Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art and Wadham College, University of Oxford.