Preview / Opening: 10th October: 5-7om : 7-9 pm
Performance "High Priestess" by Eva Mitala
Venue: Adelphi Art House
34 John Adam St. Charing Cross, London
Whilhelmina's is delighted to announce the gallery’s arrival at the Adelphi Art House, London’s newest cultural hub embodying a new generation of cultural spaces where art is experienced alongside social and everyday life. For the AAH’ inaugural exhibition Wilhelmina’s will present « Journey to the Oracle » a group show that brings together fourteen emerging and established artists across a striking range of media and approaches: from painting and sculpture deeply rooted in art historical traditions to photography, performance, digital and immersive works:
Hermine Bourdin (FR), Roberto Bruno (IT), Gordon Cheung (UK-CHN), Corcho (AR), Catherine Eldridge (UK), Philip Firsov (UK), Helen Flockhart (UK), Pippa Gatty (UK), Helmut Grill (AT), Alastair Hibbert (UK), Eva Mitala (GR), Aliki Paliou (GR), Emilio Perez (CU / US), Boris Torres (ECU / US)
The Oracle at Delphi looms large in the imagination. Who were these sacred women through whom the God Apollo prophesied to mortals for over a millennium? Their revelations were sought by the rich and powerful, however, through the course of Delphi’s long history the Oracle was also visited by ordinary people with questions of a more personal nature regarding their career, family, health, love or in the case of slaves whether they would be free one day. Visiting the Oracle was divided into six stages : The Journey / Purification / Sacrifice / Petition / Visit to the Oracle. The artists’ works mirror the stages of the pilgrimage and embody themes connected to some of the famous maxims.
Moving between traditional and contemporary styles, the contemplative and the playful, the works offer different points of entry into the exhibition’s central themes, connecting the Ancient World to the present and offering (or do they?) glimpses of the future.