A Year Spent Grieving

2025

This Cruel Temple

Hypha HQ, London, UK

Featuring and curated by the This Cruel Temple collective: Hannah Kate Absalom, Em Doodles, Meej Douglas, Hollie Palmer & Bodie Stanley.

Works shown: Sentinel, ICONS I - VII, Stele, Newlyth Sacellum Adornments.

A publication and group text was created for the show.

"The Temple has revealed its soft innards. A Year Spent Grieving asks its visitors how loss travels through the walls of the body, and how a sense of home, cohesion, faith, and knowledge may find themselves strewn apart in the spaces occupied by the living, decaying linguistic and corporeal body.

Meaty, visceral, grating and uncertain, the exhibited work pulls together five artist’s individual practices with collaborative writing and curation. An anxious, sincere and transitional microcosm is formed through sculpture, film, painting and sound installation, wherein This Cruel Temple seeks to override Hypha's space with sensorially disruptive and commanding artworks. Space and form converge in a current of loss and creation, inviting audiences to stay with the work and partake in various workshops and artist talks hosted throughout the exhibition’s opening."

In collaboration with Hypha Studios.

Images by Rene Lazovy and Carlo Zambon