Towards New Worlds
Towards New Worlds
MIMA | Jul 2024 – Feb 2025
“Groundbreaking’ UK exhibition spotlights work of disabled, D/deaf and neurodivergent artists ”
Towards New Worlds is a large scale exhibition showcasing 15 Disabled, D/deaf and/or Neurodivergent Artists.
Co-curated with curator, artist and cultural activist Aidan Moesby.
“Towards New Worlds is a large-scale exhibition sharing fifteen artists’ experiences of seeing, hearing, feeling and sensing the contemporary world. The exhibition explores a rich variety of human perceptions and sensory experiences through works of art, which make connections between the artists’ internal worlds and their external environments. The artworks consider issues in the contemporary world, including justice, ecological consciousness, connectivity and care.
Each of the artists involved is disabled, D/deaf and/or neurodiverse. The artists interpret their own perspectives, offering new insights for those encountering their work while recognising that we can never fully inhabit someone else’s experience.
The exhibition offers a rich sensory environment, with moments of quiet reflection and spaces for interaction and relaxation. Through varied production processes, including drawing, photography, installation, video and interactive sensory pieces, the artists call attention to many ways of experiencing and navigating the world.”
“It is a real gift to be surrounded by artists and many of the artists in the show, I’ve really admired their work for a long time... Curators, exhibitors, art institutions and art education should all take note of this show, because it really is something which there isn’t enough representation of, but it showcases how it should be... it allowed me to think about how I would display my work and how people would engage in it in a way in which you often don’t have the space and the opportunity to do that.”
Image description:
A straight on view of Motae, a photographic series by Louise, displayed on a white gallery wall at MIMA as part of Towards New Worlds. The work consists of fifteen photographic prints on aluminium arranged in a neat grid. Each image shows softly focused, abstracted details of the human body in muted tones, creating a sense of movement and intimacy. A wall text label is positioned to the left of the grid, with wooden gallery flooring visible below.
“Towards New Worlds in Middlesborough redefines how we experience art” ”
Image description:
A photograph showing a visitor standing in a gallery space, viewed in profile, looking closely at Motae, a photographic series by Louise exhibited at MIMA as part of Towards New Worlds. The visitor stands facing a white gallery wall on which several small photographic prints are arranged in a grid. She wears a sleeveless patterned top, black trousers, and carries a bright green shoulder bag. The artworks appear softly blurred and painterly, depicting close-up fragments of the human body.
“ “Disabled Artists lead the way” ”
