Opening Night: Imogen Stidworthy — In a Thread of Air

Overview

You’re invited to join us for the opening of In a thread of air, a new solo exhibition by artist Imogen Stidworthy. The exhibition brings together a new installation, co-commissioned by Chapter and Matt’s Gallery, London, with three related installations and a short film. For over thirty years Stidworthy’s practice has engaged with different forms of voicing, reflecting on what it means to have a voice and what it means to listen. Her works develop through spending time with people who embody different ways of being. In the sonorous, spatialised forms of her installations and films, she explores how communication shapes our ways of sense-making and relationship with self and others.

About the artist

Imogen Stidworthy is an artist based in Liverpool.

Her work has been exhibited in major exhibitions including The Myth of Normal at Hannover Kunstverein and Salzburger Kunstverein (2024); Survival Kit 11, LCCA, Riga (2020), Bergen Assembly (2019, 2013), Suzhou Biennial (2016), British Art Show 8 (2016–17), Sao Paulo Biennial (2014), Busan Biennial (2012), and Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany (2007).

She has presented solo exhibitions at Gallery Akinci, Amsterdam (2025, 2013, 2009, 2005); Museum Dr Guislain, Gent, Belgium (2022); Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium (2019); Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany (2018); Imperial War Museum, London (2015); and Matts Gallery, London (2011, 2003).

In a thread of air is supported by principal funder Colwinston Charitable Trust, Freelands Foundation, Arts Council England and Liverpool John Moores University.

AV and installation by Spike Island Exhibition Services.