May : HOUSE

The theme for May was HOUSE.
Watch the first exhibition tour and LIVE event here.

'Unus Multorum' was meant to have opened in April as a physical exhibition with projects, installations and artist multiples from 111 creative people. Transformed by the global pandemic, it has evolved into a time-less project, gently unfolding over the course of the year inside of Plas Bodfa and in the digital realm. Some of the works have made their way into the house, others are coming to life in studios, sheds, dining room tables and online. In the first of four live exhibition tours, the project's initiator Julie Upmeyer will give a tour of the show, showing the installed works and explaining the others, not yet installed. The theme of this first tour is 'HOUSE' Creatives featured: Alec Shepley, Anita Ricketts, Christine Thomas, Jan Hale, Janina Holloway, John Smith, Kate Parker, LEAK, Marek Liska, Liz von Graevenitz, Michelle Kit, Remy Dean, Rene Evans, Jayelle Neal, Sian Hughes, Stanley & Bould. Watch interviews, see images, listen to recordings, read texts and view works in progress here on our project page : https://www.plasbodfa.com/unus-multorum-2020

'Unus Multorum' was meant to have opened in April as a physical exhibition with projects, installations and artist multiples from 111 creative people. Transformed by the global pandemic, it has evolved into a time-less project, gently unfolding over the course of the year inside of Plas Bodfa and in the digital realm. In May the theme was 'HOUSE' with presentations from four of our Unus Multorum Creatives: Fiona Davies, Trish Bould & Pom Stanley, Remy Dean and Sian Hughes. Watch interviews, see images, listen to recordings, read texts and view works in progress here on our project page : https://www.plasbodfa.com/unus-multorum-2020

HOUSE
The exhibition explores ’The Possibilities of a House’ - a house being a physical location while a home could be either a building or a place that one belongs. We’ve been hearing that second word a lot lately ’Stay at Home, Save Lives’, so especially relevant to consider the relationship between the two. In the case of Plas Bodfa, the architecture is that of a house, acting as a home to five different families before becoming a streak house and then transforming into a residential care home. It was then then headquarters to a tapestry kit company, home to miniature ponies, guineafowl, a tearoom and gift shop, etc.  Funny how the words seem interchangeable at first, but are actually quite distinct. 

Plas Bodfa is a house, but not yet our home. This series of exhibitions were created to bring life and energy into the house, to reactivate it after more than a decade of emptiness. These suspended days, while strange for us, come quite naturally to Plas Bodfa I think. The artworks that have been installed have a home and our family has been inhabiting parts of the house. I have my office and studio in Wanda Garners’s future Never Doubt Chapel. Jonathan’s office is in the future home of Christine Thomas’s installation Painful Suspense. Ffion’s studio is in the room where Eve Goodman, Ness Owen, Rita Jones and Charlie Parker were to install their works.

A strange layering of activities and time. 

1st May, 2020
Julie Upmeyer