Walk in My Shoes
Salford Museum & Art GalleryPeel Park, The Crescent
Until 20 Sept
About this event
Explore recovery as a shared act of moving forward. At once personal and collective, as well as full of detours. At the heart of Walk in My Shoes is Put Your Foot Down II, a large-scale participatory floor-based artwork which will be activated by visitor’s footsteps. Led by Salford-based artist Maisie Pritchard and co-created with people in recovery, this two-day event shares the creative processes developed through the project Walk in My Shoes. Audiences are invited to explore journeying as a metaphor for recovery, something personal, collective and never simply linear. As gallery visitors move across the work, each footstep compress the material surface and leaves a trace; as more take part, footprints will overlap, intersect and fade, registering a moment of contact. The work becoming an evolving field of shared movement, where individual journeys are held within a collective landscape. The process proposes portraiture as something communal, created through the accumulated traces of embodied collective participation. Alongside the installation, visitors will be able to handle sculptural tools made from found objects, developed through hands-on workshops for playful mark-making. Displayed as artworks, they invite mark making as a form of activation, contributing to a growing archive of materials, movements and memory. Through active participation, audiences are invited to ‘walk in the shoes’ of those in recovery and to consider it, not as a singular pathway but as a multiple destination point. A continuing process shaped by shared and collective experience. Walk in My Shoes is a Portraits of Recovery commission, developed and delivered in partnership with Salford Museum & Art Gallery and Paradise Works. Generously funded by Achieve Recovery Asset Fund. Through exhibitions, performances and creative events, Recoverist Month places the arts at the centre of conversations on substance use and recovery. Held every September to mark International Recovery Month, this annual programme brings artists, communities and audiences together across venues around the UK, making a vibrant contribution to the contemporary cultural landscape. Event running on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th September. Free, with no booking required. Simply join us on both days of the event. Visit the Portraits of Recovery website for more information →
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