Exhibition bringing together the work of local artists Kelly O'Brien and Yuko Edwards on family histories, part of the Bristol Photo Festival's 'Time Machine' edition.
KIT FORM opens a new exhibition on Friday 16 October, bringing together two Bristol artists, Yuko Edwards and Kelly O'Brien, both working around family histories. It's a double show, with Edwards showing What You See in my Face and O'Brien showing No Rest for the Wicked.
Edwards' work started when she found a collection of old family negatives, prints, postcards and letters in her stepmother's family home, which her interracial parents had recently inherited. She uses them to look at how inheritance shapes identity within blended and mixed-race families. O'Brien's work weaves her own family stories into broader questions of class, gender and occupation, tracing the cycle of labour endured by poor and working-class women across three generations. She argues for the visibility of the invisible labour that keeps a home running.
Both artists are local, and both are looking at what gets handed down, what's valued, and what's made visible within a family. The two shows sit side by side, so you can see how they each approach the same starting point from different angles.
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The exhibition is part of the Bristol Photo Festival's Time Machine edition, an international biennial managed, curated and produced by IC Visual Lab. This year's theme asks how we inhabit layered time, with a focus on overlooked histories, shared rituals and imagined futures. Inherited fits right into that, pulling family archives and domestic labour out of the private and into the public.
It runs from 16 October to 15 November, open Thursday to Sunday, 12:00 to 18:00, at KIT FORM in Bristol.
