𝑵𝑬𝑪𝑹𝑶𝑳𝑶𝑮𝒀 is a site of mourning, offering an interface with absences, transitions, rituals, suspensions, shrines, and exhumations. The exhibition speculates on material afterlives, ecological grief, and the economies and systems of death(care) and loss.

 

In ‘Becoming Soil’, living human bodies come together to co-sense what it is like to relate to non/living matters and materialities. Drawing on principles from the field of Haptonomy (the practice and study of human relationality and the phenomena of touch) participants are invited to make way for a more sensorial encounter with body, soil and death-care. Unfolding in three parts: ‘Noticing’, ‘Being with/in’, ‘Fermenting’, the creative and somatic exercises play with themes such as tenderness, intentionality, attention and affective touch, while also engaging with the exhibition space, works and surrounding landscapes. An audio-recording with site-specific meditation further guides participants to creep, leak and flow through all surrounding material, temporal, fleshy and microbial entanglements after which they will gather in a process of collective processing of the experience.

 

EXHIBITION

Emma Bolland 

Claye Bowler 

Jack Brown 

Reuben Brown 

Charlotte Dawson 

Rebecca Elves 

Rebecca Howard 

Fred Hubble 

Sam Hutchinson 

Lily Lavorato 

Chloë Louise Lawrence 

Bridget Robinson 

Victoria Sharples 

 

WORKSHOP

Rosalie Bak 

 

Opening Night: June 12, 6-9

Exhibition Open: June 12-15

Open Thursday–Sunday 12:00–17:00

Workshop ‘Becoming Soil’ June 14, 2025 

 

Curated by Victoria Sharples in partnership with NMRG & Playing Fields

 

Supported by the AHE Innovation Fund, University of Derby.