Our Positive Bodies (Kenya)
TICAH brings to London the deeply personal and explosively colourful self-portraits of HIV-positive people from Kenya, India and Thailand. At a time when everyone in these communities has been touched by the loss of parents, siblings, partners, or children, the burning questions for anyone infected today are: How do I live on? How do I stay healthy? How do I keep hope alive? The life-size Body Maps on show are a powerful response to these questions, telling stories of healing, stigma, strength and care by those who make their choices in a world shaped by HIV/AIDS.
Body Mapping collage
Image courtesy: Brunei Gallery, SOAS, London
The exhibition features Body Mapping, a creative-therapeutic process which allows one to piece together past and present, gather strengths and experiences from one another, celebrate beauty and life force, courage to share and paint dreams for the future and form ideas about what it means to be healthy.
Exhibition Programme:
- Body Mapping artists from Kenya will be present - during the exhibition opening - on the 16 April, their art work and share their life stories
- Interactive installations enable visitors to experience the stories of other body maps and artists
- Body Mapping Workshop - open to people living with HIV/AIDS in London
- An open-air Body Mapping Demonstration/Exhibition
17 April – 21 June 2008
Brunei Gallery
SOAS
www.soas.ac.uk/gallery
About The Trust for Indigenous Culture and Health (TICAH)
TICAH is a Kenya-based organisation working to enhance the positive links between health and cultural beliefs, practice, knowledge, celebration, ritual, and artistic expression. Their work includes training and research in comprehensive AIDS care, publication and documentation to stimulate attention to grassroots solutions, and advocacy to raise all of our voices in effective ways. TICAH believes that: culture matters, gender matters, power matters, beauty matters, pleasure matters and process matters.
TICAH are seeking additional venues in the UK that are keen to exhibit Our Positive Bodies, after the exhibition closes at the Brunei Gallery. For more details, please contact: www.ticahealth.org
(Posted 1 April 2008)
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