Free entry
Sat 22 & Sun 23 Feb, 11am-6pm
Gallery 2
Access requirements
The Whitechapel Gallery is committed to making all of our events as accessible as possible for every audience member. Please contact access@whitechapelgallery.org if you would like to discuss a particular request and we will gladly discuss with you the best way to accommodate it.
– Information about access on site at the gallery is available here https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/visit/access/
– This includes information about Lift access; Borrowing wheelchairs & seating; Assistance Animals; Parking; Toilets and baby care facilities; Blind & Partially Sighted Visitors; Subtitles and transcripts; British Sign Language (BSL) and hearing induction loops; Deaf Messaging Service (DMS).
About This Event
– This exhibition is free entry, drop-in, and takes place in the Gallery 2 space at Whitechapel Gallery, located on the ground floor.
– The exhibition will be closed to the general public from 1.30pm on Sat 22 February as it will be activated by two live performances from Puer Deorum that afternoon- find out more and book your tickets here.
Transport
– To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
– Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
– Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
arms blue, knees bare is a multi-media exhibition by artist Puer Deorum in collaboration with Oitij-jo, bringing together and complicating narratives around memory, archives, and intimacy.
Comprised of performance, sculptural installation, and 35mm film photography from their personal archive between 2016-2024, in arms blue, knees bare Puer Deorum plays on ideas of object (im)permanence and opacity.
Strung together within the former central reading room of the Whitechapel Library, they unfold the idea of a live object, considering alternative methods of archiving, storing memories, and (re)collecting intimacy through physicality, impressions and material choices.
The exhibition will be closed to the general public from 1.30pm on Sat 22 February as it will be activated by two live performances from Puer Deorum – find out more and book your tickets here.
The exhibition will be open again as usual from 11am-6pm on Sun 23 February.
This exhibition is presented by Puer Deorum and done in partnership with Oitij-jo.
Puer Deorum is an interdisciplinary artist whose work balances negotiations between weight and ephemerality, touching upon the omnipresent scope of mortality. Drawing out from their cultural context, and referencing psycho/socio political geographies, they question homogenous ideas around the experience of time, see-sawing between monochronic (linear) and polychronic (fluid) methods. Weaving incantations of love and encapsulating embodied feelings, they tease temporalities through endurance and duration, amplifying (inter)personal experiences through dream sequences and interpretive actions.
Selected sharings of their art include: Serendipity Arts Festival (Goa), Les Urbaines (Lausanne), REProduce, Dystopia Biennial (Berlin), Spitalfields Market (London), Hugo Boss (London), Whitechapel Gallery (London) and Instrument Inventors (The Hague). Solo exhibitions: Filet Gallery (London), Quench Gallery (Margate). Selected awards: Set Studio Prize, and Arts Council DYCP Grant. They curated and produced ELO MELO, a multi-media festival in London across Whitechapel Gallery and Toynbee Hall, with Oitij-jo Collective.
Oitij-jo fosters collaboration among creative practitioners to boost British-Bengali interaction globally. Our mission is to drive social and economic progress by connecting cultures, fostering innovative narratives, and celebrating the rich heritage of the Bengali diaspora since 2013.