Delainia: 17071965 Unfolding
- Dates and Opening times
Fri 7 June – Sun 13 October
Preview & performance by Delaine Le Bas: Friday 7th June 2024, 7.30pm
Fri 7 – Sun 23 June
Monday – Friday 12pm - 5pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm
Wed 12 June, 12pm - 7pm
Fri 14 June 12pm - 7pm26 June – 13 October
Wed – Fri, 12pm – 5pm
Sat, 12pm – 6pm
Sun, 12pm - 5pm- Venue
Tramway
25 Albert Drive
G41 2PE- Participants
- Delaine Le Bas
- Presented by
Tramway and Glasgow International
- Supported by
Co-commissioned by Tramway and Glasgow International. With thanks to Paradise Nantes, France and RTA Studio Findon, U.K.
- Accessiblity
Good access: The venue has ramped or level access and/or lifts to access upper floors
Toilets: The venue has toilets available for visitors
Accessible Toilets: The venue has a wheelchair-accessible toilet
Gender Neutral: The venue has toilets not separated by gender or sex
Refreshments: There is a café or somewhere you can purchase refreshments
Baby Change: The venue has baby change facilities
Bike Rack: there is cycle parking at the venue
For detailed information about access provision at Tramway, please see here
Delainia: 17071965 Unfolding is an exhibition of work by artist Delaine Le Bas presented within an expansive and layered installation. Delaine’s objects, environments, textiles, costumes and performances exist at the intersection of the personal and the political, aligning their experiences as a Romani person with perspectives on land, movement, gender, and discrimination.
Across the exhibition, Delaine evokes forms of social and psychological commentary through the recurrent use of texts, the reactivation of personal and archival ephemera, and symbols from classical mythology and popular culture. The installations are populated by a cast of extraordinary figures such as goddesses, visionaries and witches, applying a feminist lens to narratives of both emancipation and domination.
Tramway was previously the Glasgow site of To Gypsyland, 2013, a travelling research project by Delaine and collaborator Barby Asante that explored Romani, Gypsy and Traveller presence in cities across the UK. In the intertwining of elements from past projects with new figures and narratives, Delainia reflects the ongoing address in the work of the mythologisation and demonisation of Romani, Gypsy and Traveller peoples in the UK and Europe. These concerns are amplified within present-day contexts of housing crisis, border control, forced displacement and environmental breakdown. Delaine’s work activates and reclaims space for new rituals and imaginaries of resistance against historical and contemporary environments of hostility.