LEDA and the SWAN: a myth of creation and destruction

1 Dec 2023-13 Jan 2024

Overview

Kim Brandstrup, Saskia Colwell, Miranda Forrester, Robin Friend, Tom Hunter, Annie Morris, Audrey Niffenegger, Ana Maria Pacheco, Katie Paterson, Conrad Shawcross and Marina Warner, Kiki Smith, Barbara Walker, Mark Wallinger, Alison Watt, Flora Yukhnovich

Curated by Minna Moore Ede and presented by Vortic and Victoria Miro, an exhibition of primarily new work by sixteen artists across a variety of media – drawing, painting, sculpture, film and dance. Their responses to the myth of Leda and the Swan are diverse; each has found their own meaning in the story, revealing much about our contemporary preoccupations, be they personal or universal.