Cast in Salt, Etched in Stone
‘Cast in Salt, Etched in Stone’ speaks to personal, embodied experiences of place; questioning how land shapes memory, identity, and potential futures.
Through the works of Maya Brasington, Serena Burgis, and Livvy Eden, this exhibition proposes a circular perception of time, where dialogues of truth and diaspora are interwoven with land and natural formations. Process is core to the three artists' practices and serves as a tool for contemplation; a way of unearthing truths that emerge through fragments and traces. Drawing from the materiality of evocative landscapes near and far, the works echo intimate connections to family, womanhood, and the passage of time.
Whether in places known or unknown, ‘Cast in Salt, Etched in Stone’ invites viewers to consider how memories and imagination intertwine as one.
Maya Brasington
Maya Brasington is a visual artist based in Portsmouth, UK. She uses photography as a tool to question and explore her mixed heritage, and the role photography plays in the formation of identity, memory, and imagination. Her practice centres on interrogating notions of 'third space', diaspora, and the in-betweenness of identity. Her recent work reflects on her Bajan heritage and family history, acting to recenter and reconnect with narratives once lost or untold. Using a mixture of appropriated found images, photography, and poetry, Maya converges the past and present, echoing memories and stories passed down generations.
Serena Burgis
Serena Burgis is a British-Thai visual artist and photographer currently based in Dorset. Working across performative and contemporary documentary photography, her creative approaches remain intuitive, inviting poetry, portraiture and landscape into her diaristic practice. In recent years, Burgis’ work has been heavily influenced by notions of culture and heritage as she continues to reflect on her intersectional identities as a second generation mixed race woman. In these explorations she has become increasingly fascinated by notions of the unseen and the imagined.
Livvy Eden
Livvy Eden is a visual artist based in Wiltshire, UK. Her books and photographs mark an intuitive reflection of the places she inhabits and her understanding of 'home'. As she works through land and water, she looks inward, considering how places have continued to shape her and her familial relationships. In recent works, Eden is navigating a recent diagnosis, retracing her ongoing health issues and considering how it has intertwined with her approaches to image-making and consideration of self. Eden threads past and present, informing a search for truth, peace and belonging.
Broad Street
Old Portsmouth
Portsmouth
PO1 2JE
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18–20 October
Thursday 17:00–20:00
Friday 10:30–16:30
Saturday 10:30–16:30
Sunday 10:30–16:30