A Kafka-inspired fine art exhibition is to be hosted by Leeds Beckett University at Leeds School of Arts on 7 to 10 September.
MA Fine Art students from Leeds Beckett University’s Leeds School of Arts are exhibiting their works in an exclusive public event this September. The exhibition, titled ‘Leopards in the Temple’, is inspired by Franz Kafka’s ‘Parables and Paradoxes’.
The 12 student exhibitors explored questions of paradoxes rising between traditional art and new technologies. Visitors are invited to interpret the collection of multimedia works, ranging from video, sound, painting and sculpture, to photography and spoken word.
Peter Lewis, Senior Lecturer at Leeds School of Arts: “This exhibition offers a great opportunity for our MA Fine Art students to display their work in the public sphere and showcase their artistic vision in relation to social, political, and aesthetic debates.
Come along to experience a modern take on Kafka’s storytelling, from our up-and-coming artists. Visitors will experience encounters with televised streams of images and projections illuminating the open spaces casting shadows of unknown skylines. A collection of figures made of scraps of clothing is displayed amid Victorian decor. Cardboard makeshift shelters are covered in handwriting, pages are torn from newspapers, a writer’s leather armchair is surrounded by books as if the writer has mysteriously disappeared.”
The exhibition runs as part of LEEDS 2023’s Season Three: Dreaming showcase. Leeds Beckett University is a Principal Education Partner of LEEDS 2023, playing an active role in celebrating the City’s creative industries and communities. The partnership offers students and staff the opportunity to showcase their diverse talent on a prominent stage.
Nicole Dodds, exhibitor and MA Fine Art student at Leeds Beckett University: “I’m excited to share my work with the people of Leeds. I have a keen interest in the experience of cultural phenomena and with a particular emphasis on the virtual and Japanese popular culture, including games and cuisine. From me, the public can expect films that include non-physical and physical elements, prints of self-produced texts and appropriated imagery. My practice currently resides in a form of lucidity, offering navigation of the lack of a definitive border between space and its objects.”
The Leopards in the Temple exhibition is on from Thursday 7 until Sunday 10 September at Leeds Beckett University’s Leeds School of Arts (Broadcasting Place B, second floor, City Campus, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS1 3HE).
You can register for the preview on Thursday 7 September between 18:00 – 20:00 or the public exhibition from Friday 8 September until Sunday 10 September, between 10:00 – 18:00.
