Exhibition by KP Culver that plays on the word 'patriot' to explore performance and belonging through photography, moving image and material transformation.
KP Culver's exhibition Pat Riot is running at Hyde Park Book Club through 8 November, with the opening having gone on 10 September. It's presented with the Hyde Park Art Club, and it's free to visit.
Culver is an interdisciplinary artist whose work looks at how collective and personal narratives are shaped, distorted and reimagined over time. Much of that comes from an interest in how we know and sense the world through embodied practices — touch, voice, or shared acts of noticing. Pat Riot takes that into performance and belonging, using photography, moving image and material transformation. The title plays on the word 'patriot', and Culver uses it to ask what it means to gather through creativity and shared acts of imagination rather than through nations or borders.
At the centre of the show is an enlarged photograph of the artist's nan, Pat, taken by Culver when they were a child, with Pat covered in face paint. The exhibition also draws on wider histories of performance and on Pat's garden as an early site of play and imagination, with chroma green surfaces acting as a threshold. To mark the show, a limited-edition T-shirt, 'I scream, you scream, we all scream', printed in Pat's handwriting, was produced to coincide with it.
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If you're around on Wednesday 21 October, there's a film screening and artist's talk from 7pm to 9pm, so you can hear Culver talk through the work in person. The exhibition itself runs until 8 November at Hyde Park Book Club, 27-29 Otley Road, LS6 1BL, and it's free to enter.
