Kirikuju, an exhibition at Rapla Contemporary Arts Centre, Estonia, September 20th to October 13th 2024

Tallinna mnt 3, Rapla. Estonia. https://raplakunst.eu/?cat=63&lang=en

“A collaborative exhibition by Mathura and SJ Fowler, from Estonia and the UK, respectively, is treading the borderland of the visual and the poetic, figurative and verbal. Employing asemic writing as well as other novel forms of artistic expression, it calls to examine the presence of meaning even in an unexplained world.” A film below by David Spittle.

The largest visual poetry / art exhibition Ive had since my 2019 summer show at The Poetry Society. A dual exhibition, with my friend Mathura, the exhibition takes place at the massive Rapla arts centre in Estonia and features both new collaborative pieces made with Mathura in the asemic tradition, as well as 20 or so solo pieces of my own, in what I would term the Art Poetry or Poem Brut tradition. 

The works are about poetic language and colour, legibility and the physical act of paint writing. They touch on the poster poetry tradition too, with the semantic content minimal and direct, if weird. Some of the works were made over the table between Mathura and I, and some have been produced, from my end, across this summer - this exhibition bringing me into a burst of output.

3 new solo works in the exhibition, documented by Tiina Kõrtsini

3 collaborative works, documented by Tiina Kõrtsini