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Emma Hart: BIG MOUTH

Past exhibition
November 24, 2021 - February 6, 2022
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Emma Hart: BIG MOUTH

Barakat Contemporary presents BIG MOUTH, a solo exhibition by British artist Emma Hart  (b. 1974), from November 24 (Wed), 2021 to January 23(Sun), 2022. This is the first solo  exhibition in Korea by Hart, a winner of the Max Mara Art Prize for Women (2016). Bringing together a series of new large-scale ceramic sculptural works, Hart irreverentlyexplores the pressures of being an artist from a working class background, who as she puts it “operates in the middle class artworld.” 

 

For BIG MOUTH Emma Hart uses her ceramic sculptures to perform, play out and question the power dynamics that structure a class-based society. Hart probes how our social background is transmitted through verbal signals and physical gestures, especially speech. Going beyond making vessels or pots, Hart’s risky approach to working with ceramics pushes the technical limits of clay,  setting it to make ‘situations’ in which the viewer finds themselves centre stage. Starting with the idea of manipulating ‘signs’ such as pointing fingers, speech bubbles and targets,  Hart produces imposing sculptures that tell you where to look, where to go and forcibly put words into your mouth that may not form part of your own vocabulary. Rather than generate meaning, Hart’s work generates experience, and suggests that maybe Hart’s feelings, doubts, and anxieties aren’t that far away from your own.

 

Emma Hart lives and works in London. In 2017 she won the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery. In 2015 she was awarded a Paul Hamlyn Foundation award for Visual Art. In 2022, Hart will realise her first permanent sculpture for the public entrance of the UCL East, Pool Street West building, on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

 

We cordially invite you to explore Emma Hart’s first solo exhibition in Korea.

 

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Installation Views
Works
  • Crying Shame 2021 Black stoneware, earthenware with acrylic paint, acrylic paint and metal 50cm x 50cm x 50cm

    Crying Shame

    2021

    Black stoneware, earthenware with acrylic paint, acrylic paint and metal

    50cm x 50cm x 50cm

     

  • 양다리(Two-timer) 2021 Glazed ceramic with engobe 60cm diameter x 25cm deep

    양다리(Two-timer)

    2021

    Glazed ceramic with engobe

    60cm diameter x 25cm deep

     

  • Big Mouth 2021 Black and white stoneware, Steel, Rope Dimensions Variable

    Big Mouth

    2021

    Black and white stoneware, Steel, Rope

    Dimensions Variable

     

  • 입방정(Loose Lips) 2021 Glazed ceramic with engobe 60cm diameter x 25cm deep

    입방정(Loose Lips)

    2021

    Glazed ceramic with engobe

    60cm diameter x 25cm deep

     

  • Feedback 2021 Black stoneware, earthenware with acrylic paint 50cm x 50cm x 50cm

    Feedback

    2021

    Black stoneware, earthenware with acrylic paint

    50cm x 50cm x 50cm

     

  • Social Climber 2021 Black and White Stoneware, Wood Dimensions Variable

    Social Climber

    2021

    Black and White Stoneware, Wood

    Dimensions Variable

     

  • You're All Over the Shop 2021 Black and White Stoneware, Wood Dimensions Variable

    You're All Over the Shop

    2021

    Black and White Stoneware, Wood

    Dimensions Variable

Videos
  • Emma Hart—BIG MOUTH

    Emma Hart—BIG MOUTH

    Artist Talk Read more
  • Emma Hart—BIG MOUTH

    Emma Hart—BIG MOUTH

    Interview Read more
Press
  • KOR | The Potter's language game

    Art In Culture, Jae-yeon Cho, January 1, 2022
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  • KOR | The moment of speaking, Emma Hart 'BIG MOUTH'

    Monthly Ceramic Art, Mi Seok Huh, January 1, 2022
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  • KOR | Artist Emma Hart

    LUXURY, HAN DONGEUN, January 1, 2022
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  • KOR | Emma Hart, Anti-Emma Hart

    LeeAtel Magazine, Koeun Lee, December 24, 2021
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  • EN | Rising international artists' first exhibitions in Korea

    The Korea Times, Park Han-sol, December 16, 2021
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  • KOR | Human beings are different on the outside and inside - The duality of language

    edaily, Eunbi Kim, December 7, 2021
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  • KOR | [Exhibition] Emma Hart's solo show ··· BIG MOUTH

    MHN, Hyun Seok Baek , November 27, 2021
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  • KOR | Words and actions that are different from the real me... Emma Hart Solo Exhibition

    Yonhap News, Jong Hoon Kang , November 26, 2021
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  • KOR | British sculptor Emma Hart's first Korean exhibition

    Eyesmag, Youlim Heo, November 23, 2021
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  • KOR | The first solo show of Emma Hart in Korea

    newsis, Hyunjoo Park, November 23, 2021
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