Baltic Preview: Ali Cherri / Laura Lancaster and Rachel Lancaster
Join us to celebrate the opening of two exhibitions, Ali Cherri: How I Am Monument & Laura Lancaster and Rachel Lancaster: Remember, Somewhere
Friday 11 April 2025 | 18:00-23:30
Visit Baltic for a first look at two major new exhibitions. After the galleries close enjoy DJ sets from Paul Smith and Ross Millard in Baltic Riverside.
Schedule
18:00 Galleries open
18:00 Drinks Reception, Baltic Riverside, Ground Floor
18:15 Director’s Welcome, Baltic Riverside
19:00 DJ Set: Ross Millard (The Futureheads)
20:30 Galleries close
21:00 DJ Set: Paul Smith (Maximo Park)
23:30 Preview Party closes
With thanks to Full Circle Brewery
Ali Cherri’s practice is inspired both by archaeological artefacts and the natural world. How I Am Monumentshowcases the artist’s interests in process and materiality, looking at history and the ancient world through a material lens.
Laura Lancaster makes paintings from found imagery, collected from anonymous analogue photographs and film. She transposes the lost and discarded memories of strangers into ambiguous territory between abstraction and figuration. Rachel Lancaster’s practice is focused on painting and its interactions with the languages of cinema, music and photography. She is drawn to seemingly insignificant passing shots, extreme close ups of inanimate objects, common place domestic interiors; the split-second moments that are “in-between” the action.
Ali Cherri: How I Am Monument has been developed in partnership with Vienna Secession, where it is presented until 23 February 2025. A second, expanded chapter will be exhibited in Baltic’s Level 4 gallery from 12 April – 12 October 2025. In the framework of this collaboration, the partners have co-commissioned new works by the artist.
