Goldsmiths Exhibition Hub

Forma is delighted to be partnering with Goldsmiths Exhibition Hub and LADA for the 2024 Exhibitions Hub Alumni Commission Award, and we are excited to announce Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art graduate (2022) Krystle Patel has been selected as the recipient.

Over the next 6 months Krystle will dig into LADA’s archive and receive mentoring from members of staff at both LADA, Forma and Goldsmiths. Krystle will develop performance work in response to this archival research, presenting the new work at Forma in November.

“I’m looking forward to working with both LADA and Forma to research staging in performance as part of my long form project Possession. Using LADA’s archives of art writing and experimental theatre alongside the architecture of Forma’s event space, I will develop a performance that plays with light and spatial sound while considering notions of permission and control.

Possession has evolved from ongoing work into the limitations and violence of the term ‘British – Asian’ as well as frustrations with the current expectations and impositions of the art world with respect to identity politics and fixed notions of being.

Possession here is seen in the multiple, as trance like possession through rhythm, possession of the body and desire, and possession of culture and identity as commodifiable objects. The project seeks to question how immaterial languages can disrupt euro-centric structures and borders, and how movement can be mobilised as a vessel for greater empathy and connection”.

Krystle’s practice exemplifies what we seek to nurture in our creative students and graduates here at Goldsmiths, and we are enormously proud to support the next phase of its development.