Jonah King exhibition opens at National College of Art and Design Gallery
The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) is delighted to present Tongue The Sun, an online exhibition experience of new work by artist Jonah King, launching this Friday, 17th July, at 5pm.
Press Release
Thursday, 16th July 2020
Jonah King exhibition opens at National College of Art and Design Gallery
The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) is delighted to present Tongue The Sun, an online exhibition experience of new work by artist Jonah King, launching this Friday, 17th July, at 5pm. The exhibition will open with a reading from the essay, Unfathomable Intimacies by Jonah King, live streamed on the NCAD Gallery YouTube channel.
King’s Tongue The Sun project seeks to contextualise the materiality of our body’s ecosystem. Using the web as on online exhibition platform, it comprises three core outcomes that include; an interactive digital sculpture, essay reading, and programme of live streamed events with the artist Jonah King and invited participants.
King’s project is contextualised by this present unprecedented moment in which we are currently living, when our biology, in all its fragility, has taken priority over global trade, party-politics, and identity divisions that characterise our time. The artist’s focus is on a reinterpreting of how evolutionary forces undermine stability in modern life. Through their project, we are invited to consider looking at the world through a lens that disrupts heteronormative categorisations. In this instance, reference is made to the ‘queer ecology’ perspective in regard to organisms, species, and individuals’ value and identity classifications.
Tongue The Sun, is programmed as part of, and a precursor to, the originally planned expanded physical exhibition, Tongue The Sun at the NCAD Gallery, curated by NCAD programme curator Anne Kelly. A second physical gallery iteration of the Tongue The Sun project, is in planning to take place on a future date to include new sculptural works. The Tongue The Sun, Part I, project is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
King’s project, Tongue The Sun, is commissioned by the NCAD Gallery in 2020 and is their first major solo exhibition in Ireland.
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Notes to Editor:
- Jonah King is available for interview on request.
- Further details on Tongue The Sun event dates and times are available on the NCAD website.
- For more information on NCAD’s Gallery exhibitions visit the NCAD Gallery webpage.
- Event: Friday 17th July, 2020, 5pm GMT / 12pm EST: A reading from the essay, Unfathomable Intimacies by Jonah King, will be broadcasted live on the NCAD Gallery YouTube Channel.
- Image available for download via Google Drive
- Image credit: Honey Fungus, interactive digital sculpture accessed on www.tonguethesun.com, courtesy of the artist Jonah King, Tongue The Sun exhibition NCAD Gallery, 2020.
About Jonah King.
Jonah King (b. 1985) is an Irish artist, filmmaker and writer exploring technology, intimacy and collectivity through multimedia projects, film, sculpture, and auto-theory essays. King has exhibited at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, The New York Jewish Museum, and Fotografiska Stockholm; received official selections at the Oberhausen Film Festival and London International Motion Pictures Awards. Their recent solo exhibitions include: Wonsook Kim University Galleries (Ilinois), Clima (Milan), Weekend (Seoul), and Meyohas (New York). In 2019, King co-produced their first theatre production at the Dublin Fringe Festival, Ireland.
Jonah received a BFA Media from NCAD (Dublin), an MFA from Columbia University, and attended the Skowhegan School. King is a recipient of the Owen Walsh Award, Andrew Fisher Fellowship and is a Rema Hort Mann Nominee. Their work is represented in the Irish State Collection.
