Widely exhibited internationally, Lima’s category-defying practice has explored the relationship between living beings, sites, material and time since the 1990s. Across the Lower and Upper Galleries, The Drawing Drawing brings together a concise selection of works spanning Lima’s evolving practice to the present day. The exhibition shares its title with a major site-specific commission that hijacks the conventions of a life drawing class. In Lima’s version, in which a life model and artists slowly and unpredictably orbit one another on mechanised platforms, the positions of subject and object, and accompanying ideas of faithful representation and mastery, are put into question. The exhibition includes artworks involving human participants. The installation in the Lower Gallery, The Drawing Drawing, will have a nude model at various times throughout the day. Before you visit the exhibition, please note: • The timing of the life model is subject to change • Photography and filming of the Lower Gallery is not allowed when life model is present. Photography and filming of all other areas of the exhibition is allowed for non-commercial personal use • A nude life model may be present in the gallery. Please contact us for more information
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The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most progressive artists. In our landmark home on The Mall in central London, we invite artists and audiences to interrogate what it means to live in our world today, with a genre-fluid programme that challenges the past, questions the present and confronts the future. The cross-disciplinary programme encourages these art forms and others to pollinate in new combinations and collaborations. We stage club nights and film festivals, gigs and exhibitions, talks and digital art – with interplay and interaction at the core of all we do. Our history of presenting and promoting visionary new art is unrivalled in London: from Kenneth Anger to Kathy Acker, Kano to Klein, Jackson Pollock to Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gay Sweatshop to Forensic Architecture, Pop Art to queer techno. Today, as ever, our inclusive programme reflects and represents who we are as a disparate and diverse collection of cultures and identities. Central to the ICA’s vision and mission is a commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion at all levels of the organisation. We acknowledge that in the past the organisation maintained racial inequalities which have marginalised some individuals and communities. We are now striving to improve our communication, culture and behaviours so that we are a truly inclusive organisation. Exactly 79 years after a group of artists and poets founded the ICA as an alternative to the mainstream, we are committed more than ever to pave the way for the next generation and to platform creative voices. The ICA continues to celebrate risk and champion innovation, and experimentation across the arts – a playground and a home for today’s most vital artists.