Audio Description Tour: Lygia Clark x Sonia Boyce

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7 Nov 2024, 6.30pm

Monday Closed
Tuesday 11am–6pm
Wednesday 11am–6pm
Thursday 11am–9pm
Friday 11am–6pm
Saturday 11am–6pm
Sunday 11am–6pm

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Audio Description Tour: Lygia Clark x Sonia Boyce

Join the Whitechapel Gallery for an Audio Description tour led by Richard Martin of Lygia Clark x Sonia Boyce, designed for blind and partially sighted visitors.

This Autumn, Whitechapel Gallery presents two exhibitions especially conceived to be in dialogue with each other. Lygia Clark: The I and the You and Sonia Boyce: An Awkward Relation explore pivotal moments in the artists’ careers, where each began experimenting with participatory practices.

Although separated by time and geography, and working in different cultural and socio-political contexts, the artists share a deep interest in addressing and shifting the relationship between artist, artwork and audiences, often inviting direct engagement with their works, including touch, manipulation, even inhabitation. By pairing the two artists in this way, audiences are invited to reflect on both the similarities and differences in their works and approaches, while also providing a meeting point for different art histories and cultural contexts to meet.

Both shows have interactive and tactile aspects where everyone is welcome to explore the objects and materials through active participation.

Please note that this tour is for blind and partially sighted visitors. Sighted companions and guide dogs are welcome.

About Richard Martin

Richard Martin is Director of Participation at Whitechapel Gallery, where he oversees a creative programme for all ages developed in collaboration with artists, audiences and cultural partners, particularly in East London.