The Coming of Age
curated by Bella Kerr (Age 62) & Amanda Roderick (Age 50)
for Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2022
opening event from 6pm, Friday 27 May. All welcome
exhibition continues until 12 June 2022*
41 Milsom Street,
Bath BA1 1DN
Open daily 11am - 6pm*
*closing at 3pm on Sun 12 June
Aliceson Carter
Annie Wright
Anzhelika Osieva & Pedro Andrade
Bella Kerr & Will Jones
Elizabeth Dymond
Gabriella Tigoglu
Hamish Gane
Jacqueline Ennis-Cole
Keith Bayliss
Kelvin Atmadibrata
Lillie Ruffels
Mez Kerr Jones
Richard Bowers
Steph Mastoris
Suze Adams
The Coming of Age is dedicated to the memory of one of its exhibitors,
Will Jones (1991-2022), who died suddenly on 11th February 2022.
"Society cares about the individual only insofar as he is profitable. The young know this. Their anxiety as they enter upon social life matches the anguish of the old as they are excluded from it".
- Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir's The Coming of Age allows us to think of youth and old age, the journey to adulthood, and cross-generational views. This exhibition, rather than focusing only on practical, physical issues, examines the existential, philosophical problem of how we are in the world at any age.
THE
ARTISTS
“The child surpasses the adult by the wealth of its possibilities, the vast range of its acquisitions and its emotional freshness” - Simone de Beauvoir
“…old age can only be understood as a whole: it is not solely a biological, but also a cultural fact”. - Simone de Beauvoir
Age 76
"There is only one solution if old age is not to be an absurd parody of our former life and that is to go on pursuing ends that give our existence meaning" - Simone de Beauvoir
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