Lucy Stein: Wet Room

25 Sep 2021-16 Jan 2022

PV 24 Sep 2021, 6-8pm

Jung in PZ (detail), 2020, Acrylic, oil, charcoal, sennelier pastel and oil stick on canvas, 240 x 180cm. Credit: Courtesy the artist and Gregor Staiger, Zurich. Photograph by Steve Tanner

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Spike Island presents Wet Room, the first major solo exhibition in the UK by Cornwall-based artist Lucy Stein (b. 1979). Working primarily with painting and drawing, Stein’s show is inspired by the fougou: narrow Neolithic underground passages unique to West Cornwall that lead to womb-like chambers and have become sacred sites of worship. Echoing the ritual rebirthing ceremonies that are believed to have taken place within these uterine caverns, the exhibition centres around an installation comprising a bathtub and sink with running taps, surrounded by tiled walls that have been hand-painted with scenes relating to the artist’s study of western esoteric traditions.

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