Anna Mendelssohn: Speak, Poetess

11 Oct 2023-21 Jan 2024

Overview

The first institutional display of works by the poet, writer, and artist, Anna Mendelssohn, who was also known as Grace Lake. 

This archival exhibition presents a selection of Mendelssohn’s poetry and works on paper. Through the confluence of poetry and visual art, Mendelssohn explores—amongst other things—the socio-historical mechanisms which influence the creation and destruction of language in public and private spheres. Anna Mendelssohn: Speak, Poetess brings together works which examine how iniquities such as war, fascism, and incarceration influence the ways we express and give form to history and social experience.

Anna Mendelssohn: Speak, Poetess is curated by Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung, the 2023 Asymmetry Curatorial Fellow at Whitechapel Gallery, with Sara Crangle, Professor of Modernism & the Avant-Garde at the University of Sussex as curatorial consultant.