My Body, Your Body - Exhibition

By Jalaya Rajwadi and Eve McGuire

My Body, Your Body, was a collaboratively curated exhibition created by Eve and Jalaya, which

displayed their own works, and work made by a selection of four other artists who currently study at

Goldsmiths or have recently graduated. It explored the topic of the female body and experiences

which come along with it, including those of non-binary/trans identities. Across all the participating

artists, there was a mixture of works relating to the theme, which were explored through multiple

different mediums such as painting, installation, video, photography, and textiles.

Eve and Jalaya are currently third year Fine Art with Art History and Fine Art students at Goldsmiths. Eve uses painting and installation as her main mediums, and Jalaya works across multiple medias, and both artists are interested in topics which surround the female body and experiences relating to it. Due to their shared passion for making artwork on this topic, they decided to collaboratively curate and organize this exhibition, My Body, Your Body.

Participating Aritsts and Their Instagrams

Eve McGuire- @evemcguire

Jalaya Rajwadi- @jaiirajwadi

Aysha Leach- @ayshaleach

Milo Edwards- @iflotrs

Lucia Bernabeu Rodrigo- @womancreatures

Chantel Okwesa- @chantel_okwesa

Editor’s Note

My Body, Your Body was an exhibition cultivated to create impact on those who came to see it. The art selected reflects the deep routed feelings associated with the body, and each piece adds to the overall vision of the art work. It was amazing to see the abundance of talent shown between the six artists that participated, and I felt deeply connected with each of the works shown. It was an amazing showcase of relatable works, and I can’t wait to see what these artists create in the future.

Edited by Izzy Judd

Look at the Earth / Look at the Moon

Look at the Earth

Art work by my brother, Noah Chapman. Instagram - @noah_chapman15

Look at the Moon

By Louis Chapman

The main idea behind my work is to contemplate the fact that one day we will no longer be here. Thought surrounding our mortality is uncomfortable and frightening for many people, but through my music and through this short script I wish to explore death as something freeing. As a way of liberating the soul from worry and stress. Growing up, when something bad would happen to me, my mum would always say, ‘at least you’re not dead.’ It is this mantra that has seen me through most of my life, because no matter how awkward an interaction has been, how badly I feel I’ve hurt someone, or how late I’ve been to something, the truth is at least I’m not dead.

Louis Chapman is a 22-year-old singer and writer from the deep, deep, south (Cornwall). He enjoys writing and producing his own music as well as writing script pieces and short stories. He is currently in his third year at Goldsmiths studying English and Media, and he also devotes some of his time editing the GoldDust online magazine. One day he hopes to be dragged on twitter by Azalea Banks.

Instagram - @louischapmann

A Day

by Shayda Soleiman

This was a Creative Writing assignment. I picked an exceptionally mundane day, then came to regret it as it portrays me as the lamest of them all.

Shayda is a third-year Media and Communications student at Goldsmith’s. She enjoys writing satire and humorous fiction, especially stories involving non-human characters. Her hobbies include hot chocolate and sitting under a blanket, and she believes two things made her the woman she is today: growing up somewhere extremely rainy, and her childhood crush on John Travolta.

from the Editor

A short journey through the life of Shayda. Its fun and relatable.

Frederic Hall

Hauntology: Reminiscing of an Abandoned Past.

by Miquel Agell

‘This piece attempts to capture the remains of an abandoned past through the lens of a Sony Hi8 tape video camera. It focuses on three locations whose present has been altered and now remain in an abandoned state: Gòsol and Portbou (Spain), Cerbère (France).’

Miquel Agell is a young creative from Barcelona who moved to London to start his Media & Communications BA at Goldsmiths. You can learn more about him and his work by visiting his website miquelagell.com. He is always open to collaboration and will be happy to meet fellow creatives. Instagram: @miquelagell

The Chaos of the Thread

by Saqib Iqbal

A thread can represent many things, a journey, a trip, an experience. But when these threads are layered, knotted and multiplied, it creates a web with no clear beginning, middle or end. This is how I see life. One big web with nowhere to go. A web with danger sitting comfortably inside. Ready to make the entire web collapse.

Saqib Iqbal is a student currently in his second year of studying Anthropology and Media. He is an artist who produces work in a variety of mediums such as photography, video, drawing and painting, to name a few. His work does not follow a strict style or focus but is constantly evolving as he is gains inspiration from the world around him.

Ramshackle

by Tianyuan Hu

“This is a mixed medium project named" Ramshackle". In the dictionary "ramshackle" is a word usually used to describe a building under a state of severe disrepair, but here I want to use it to describe dissociative identities. I use photography and animation to develop this concept from external and internal perspectives separately.”

Tianyuan Hu is a visual artist currently working with the medium of photography and animation. Her recent work can be viewed on her website www.tianyuan.online

Boomers to Zoomers: Intro / Work Ethic

Boomers to Zoomers: Intro

Boomers to Zoomers: Work Ethic

“Boomers to Zoomers is a mini-series that aims to showcase the differences and similarities between the older and younger generation. In this episode, Work Ethic, we asked the participants to discuss who works harder and what motivates them.”

Created by Media and Communications graduates Mary Livesey, Stephen Hak, and Ji Hoon Kim. They specialise in digital video content and have a particular interest in multimedia projects that incorporate film and animation. See more from them on Instagram: @maryliveseymedia @hakkerscontent @jh4826

Love Through the Generations

by Olivia Mello

“Having a soft spot for love stories, Olivia wanted to see if the way couples meet has changed over time. ‘Love Through the Generations ‘tells three love stories, by three different generations, on how they have met their significant other, and if there was a happy ending or not.”

Olivia is a second-year Media and Communications student, specialising in journalism. She aspires to work within the advertising industry and has a love for getting to know people and telling their stories.

The Maids

by Sarah-Rose

Fantasy of Nothingness

by Lingrui Feng

In these images, I use “hole” to replace the face which remove the identity of people and make them become an object. Through the collages, I am seeking what these people really represent and what’s the meanings for them to exist in the contemporary society.

During the creation, I combined different elements through post-production to present the scene in my mind. These elements are from my own works, and when they collaborate with each other, they become more complete.

The reason why I chose these elements and put them together is following my instinct and my natural feelings. And to make the photo become faker, this process, in my opinion, is closer to fantasy which is between true and fake.

Lingrui Feng is from Mainland China. She was a student learning Photography: Image and Electronic Art at Goldsmiths. The course changed how she thought of photography and broadened her way of seeing, which is why she has started to create more mixed-media works. She enjoys exploring what photography is and what it can be. She believes that under the contemporary context, photography is no longer just about light, chemicals, and machinery, but also program, imagination, and illusions.

Preach Period

by Mary Livesey

University students engage in a series of games, quizzes and discussion to help rid the taboo on periods. #PreachPeriod

A campaign film made by Ji Kim, Chelsea Jones-Alleyne and Mary Livesey during their second year as part of their specialisation module, digital video for the web. It was inspired from the small scale brand LUXstore that Mary has previously worked with who make environmentally friendly menstrual pads which are biodegradable.

J’adoube

by Ronan Sommerville

“I chose to study at Goldsmiths because it’s a creative powerhouse of London and I really wanted to be a part of its large creative body. My illustrations bring to life the world that exist in my head, creating realities that otherwise wouldn't be there.”

Ronan Sommerville is a first year Design student who is passionate about fighting against the elitism that continues to exist in art. His ambition is the make art accessible to everyone to appreciate and enjoy. Having developed his own style at the age of 18, Ronan loves combining different elements in creating a platform that demonstrates his perception of the world, a way of seeing that is recognizably his own.

Words by Melissa Heane

Blackout Poetry

Discover. Deface. Reinvent. 

Pieces by Emma Paoli.

Blackout poetry is widely considered as the creation of author, illustrator and web-designer Austin Kleon in 2005. It was used as a technique to overcome writers block, and he started to form brief pieces of writing with only a sharpie and a newspaper. Its popularity has grown incredibly since, with creatives fascinated by the idea of creating something profound from the mundane, or defacing a piece they hold dear in an attempt to breathe a different kind of life into it. 
 

Emma is from Florence, Italy. She is a graduate of the Media and English BA at Goldsmiths.



Original texts used:

Strange how people... from 'An Unwritten Novel' by Virginia Woolf, 1920

After gazing into the windows... from 'A Haunted House' Virginia Woolf, 1921

Hand in hand... from 'A Haunted House' Virginia Woolf, 1921

Come in... from 'Nothing on Earth' by Conor O' Callaghan, 2016