The Barbican is celebrating 20 years of commissioning for The Curve. You can read more here.
I visited Inside, Before They Speak last weekend, it runs until Sunday 19 April 2026.
Rather than cut and paste from it, I attach a link to the Exhibition Guide here: https://www.barbican.org.uk/exhibition-guides/julia-phillips-exhibition-guide
There follows some images from the exhibition which you can read about in the Guide and decide if you want to visit in person.
Drainer III …
Harmonizer …
Inseminator …
Fertilizer …
Suspended Interior I …
Mediator III …
One reviewer has written: ‘Writers often use the term ‘visceral’ metaphorically, to signify raw, instinctive emotions: but as applied to the current exhibition at the Barbican Curve, Julia Phillips’s Inside, Before They Speak, the term is used quite literally. The exhibition focuses on the Chicago-based artist’s almost obsessive interest in the body, particularly its insides – or viscera – and human conception’.
I have to say that there were a couple of times when I felt a bit queasy! But I’m still pleased I went.
Here are reviews/comments on the exhibition from Voice Magazine, East End Review and London Unattached.
And now on a lighter note, some lake activity.
Mr and Mrs Coot build a nest at the same spot every year …
‘Bottoms Up’ from the local ducks …
A rather exotic visitor …
And finally, I’m often intrigued by the stuff left lying around on the Estate …
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