Baltic Preview: Saelia Aparicio & Harold Offeh

A Joyful Parasite is Aparicio’s largest exhibition to date and a major new commission for Baltic. A multidisciplinary artist, Aparicio works across sculpture, installation and animation to explore the body, ecology and systems of care. Often surreal and speculative, her work imagines alternative forms of cohabitation between humans and nonhumans, drawing on science fiction and environmental research to create playful yet urgent narratives. Join us to preview this immersive new commission, where nothing is entirely fixed, and everything is teeming with life.

Saelia Aparicio, A Joyful Parasite is commissioned by Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, in partnership with Southwark Park Galleries, London and The Burton at Bideford, North Devon.

The Mothership Collective 2.0, produced with and for communities, young people and families, has landed in Baltic's ground floor gallery. A platform for play, gathering, curiosity, imaginative making and thinking, it is a sci-fi playscape for collaborative encounters. Harold Offeh has worked across performance, video, photography, learning and social arts practice for over two decades. His humorous and often provocative works explore subjects from pop culture to identity and conformity. Drawing from music, film and mainstream cultural trends, Offeh interrogates political, class, gender and racial models in society. The Mothership Collective 2.0 continues his ongoing interest in Afrofuturism, joy and play.

Harold Offeh, The Mothership Collective 2:0 is commissioned by Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead in partnership with Tramway, Glasgow