Event Details

A reading by artist Hephzibah Israel followed by a Q&A with Dr Delphine Grass and wine reception. This free event is co-organised by The Transcultural Writing, Practice and Research Network, Lancaster University, Edinburgh University, Talbot Gallery, Global Links and Lancashire Refugee Council.

மொழிபெயர்ப்பு / the nature of difference is a series of twenty individual text works by Hephzibah Israel, commissioned by Talbot Rice Gallery and produced in collaboration with Fraser Muggeridge studio. Exploring living between languages and border crossings from her own lived experience, Israel poses questions and prompts us to reconsider popular perceptions of translation as crossing borders. Layering languages, she creates playful patterns to suggest translation as repetition. She delights in the ways the three languages - Tamil, Hindi and English - relate to each other and to punctuation. Her work invites us to reflect on ‘translatables’ that may shape our ways of being and relating to others in space and time.

The poetry and art exhibition exploring living between languages will be at the Storey from June 1-7.