March 28 – April 26, 2025
Lauren Bryden: Dilation
Paul Stolper Gallery
In Person Viewing:
31 Museum Street
London, UK WC1A 1LH
Online Viewing:
Thursday, March 27th, 6 – 8PM
Dilation presents a new body of work that explores the enlarging, expanding and opening up of different worlds inherent in the (m)other metamorphosis. Lauren Bryden confronts this process through the lens of folklore, particularly the mysticism around plants and their association with women healers in the 16th century, a time when the cunning folk and midwives were accused of witchcraft simply for their knowledge of the natural world. Women’s rights and the history of plants and healing are thematically entangled through the work, the stylised sub/terranean plantscapes evoking the contradictory fascinations and fears about women’s connexion with nature.
