Trampoline supports artist Benoît Piéron for his participation in the exhibition Flare-up at Goldsmiths CCA in London. This support follows a series of artist encounters organised in 2018 for Sarah McCrory, Director of the Goldsmiths CCA, through Trampoline’s curators invitation programme.
Flare-Up is the first institutional exhibition in London to bring together seventeen UK-based and international visual artists whose work engages with the poetics and aesthetics of illness, disability, neurodivergence and Deafness.
Thus, Flare-Up situates also contemporary British practices in dialogue with international contexts and with earlier movements, including the enduring influence of HIV/AIDS art and activism. Works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Derek Jarman trace such intergenerational continuities. This lineage is most explicit in Benoît Piéron’s Pillbox Dungeness Seed Bomb (2018), a chromatic pill organiser containing capsules filled with seeds from plants at Prospect Cottage – Jarman’s final refuge-garden in Dungeness, Kent. The seismic impact of this legacy has been foundational in the formation of crip communities and artistic strategies, drawing on queer approaches to abstraction and opacity as forms of crip aesthetics.
