'Telling Moments' presents mixed media textile artist Georgina Maxim’s first solo exhibition in London. The show - produced in collaboration with 31 Project Gallery - focuses on time and recollection, reflecting the significance of how time is used, accumulated and valued.
This follows her inclusion in the group show 'Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art' at the Barbican which will travel to the Stedelijk Museum in September.
It has been used for generations to create a temporary hold on torn items, often using a thread that did not match the colour or texture of the garment. It is also seen as a stitch for closing scars. Coupled with weaving, crocheting and knitting, Maxim builds her mixed media pieces through this contextually rich gesture of bringing textiles, kinship, and temporality together.
'Telling Moments' focuses on time and recollection, reflecting the significance of how time it is used, accumulated and valued. Maxim considers the labour of cutting and sewing as an act consumes the clock. However, it is also an act of construction and memory-making, one that enables the search for herself and her mother.
'It’s a constant in and out feeling much like how the needle and thread seem to create that very motion - in and out. The works are varied, each representing a time of search within the material and a chance to copy myself out onto the material. It’s as if sewing over and over again is a good deed to the heart.
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Artist Bio
Georgina Maxim is known for both working as artist and curator with over a decade of arts management and curatorial practice. Maxim together co-founded Village Unhu in 2012, an artist collective space in Harare that has been providing studio spaces, exhibitions, workshops and residency programs for artists – young and professional.
After studying at the University of Chinhoyi, she worked at Delta Gallery, a historical gallery for contemporary art in Harare. Georgina Maxim has at the same time developed her artistic work by turning to textiles and using the techniques of embroidery, sewing and weaving to deconstruct, cut out and recompose second-hand clothes by creating a new memory. She thus creates singular works that escape definition: the artist herself describes her work as an act of memory, a transcription of the moment, the lived moments and stories evoked by these used textiles.
In 2018, Georgina Maxim was nominated for the Henrike Grohs Award (Goethe Institute, Abidjan).
Her work has been exhibited in Zimbabwe (Gallery Delta, National Gallery of Zimbabwe) and internationally including art fairs and group shows (Sulger Buell Gallery in London, Goethe Institute in Salvador de Bahia).Georgina Maxim holds a master's degree from the University of Bayreuth, Germany on African Verbal and Visual Arts. In 2019, Maxim presented an installation of textiles for the Zimbabwean pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. In 2020, Maxim exhibited at the Bargoin Museum (Clermont-Ferrand) and presented her work at the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine in 2021.
