Between Bridges Residency Exhibition

Lucy Beech: Out of Body

22 November–22 December 2024
Opening: 21 November, 6–9 pm

Between Bridges Residency Space
Keithstraße 15, 10187 Berlin
Thursday to Sunday, 12–6 pm

Lucy Beech’s exhibition “Out Of Body” includes a newly commissioned short film that follows maintenance work at various thresholds of the body. Oscillating between poetry, documentary, and reenactment, the film slips between the cracks of industrial spaces; below ground; across membranes; factory walls; and into orifices and hidden worlds of work, where fantasies of containment and bodily autonomy are rehearsed and mythologized. In this poetic and psychedelic rendering of impermanence, rupture, and fluidity, Beech explores bodily waste as not outside of society but as always in relation to other constitutive dimensions such as culture, knowledge, technology, and communication. 

The film's poetry was developed through collaborative exchange between Beech, historian of health Elsa Richardson, and poet Logan February, who performs the film’s narration.

Lucy Beech is an artist whose practice revolves around collaboration and encompasses filmmaking, choreography, research, and writing. Recent works have explored themes such as intimacy, infrastructure, and contemporary understandings of the ways in which bodies and technologies mutually shape one another. Logan February is a poet and 2024 Literature Fellow of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, whose multidisciplinary work spans autoethnography and psycho-spiritual erotics. Elsa Richardson is a historian of health focusing on cultures and theories of consumption and digestion.

Lucy Beech is the fourth stipend recipient of the bi-annual Between Bridges Residency. They follow Yalda Afsah, the collective Viscose, and Didem Pekün. The fifth stipend, starting in January 2025, has been awarded to Harry Hachmeister, and the sixth recipient will be announced shortly.

www.lucybeech.com