Trading Zone 2025

15 Mar-31 May 2025

Emily Beaney, Deviant, 2023, film still, courtesy of the artist

Overview

Emily Beaney, Ross Dickson, Victoria Evans, Emilie Fielding, Keziah Greenwood, Inayah, Hanayo Kubota, Rita Mahfouz, Eilidh McKeown, Maria Schiza, Wenqi Zou

Trading Zone – a term coined by historian of science Peter Galison to describe how different worldviews can meet within scientific collaborations – is Talbot Rice Gallery’s interdisciplinary student exhibition. Trading Zone 2025 will include students from: fine art, design, illustration, painting, sculpture, contemporary art practice and creative writing.

The exhibition is driven by the student’s works and will include: a film made with women who live with endometriosis; a sound work modulated by data from satellites used for monitoring the melting of the ice caps or on a voyage to mercury; work exploring lost or marginalised forms of female medical practice; works that negotiate the political and religious divisions of communities in Glasgow; works that empathetically tell the stories of families in current world conflicts; sculptures that explore the relationship between women and monsters in art history; artworks that take the forms of archaeological sites and museological displays; queer, mythological spaces made as a refuge for individual’s stories; a performative lecture and artwork looking at the wide use of protective screens over windows in Lebanon as is faces multiple crises; written, poetic reflections on the many objects across the exhibition.

Together, these artworks will weave nuanced stories about the global, local and diverse issues concerning creative practitioners today. It is a chance to see the incredible talent across Edinburgh College of Art and beyond, and bring into focus the many ways art can reflect upon the key issues of our times.