The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum Podcast

Herbert Art Talks Episode 3: Drawing Memories - Sophie Ernst’s HOME

What does home mean to you? From childhood memories to national identities, Sophie Ernst’s HOME explores what the idea represents to people who have been forced to leave their homes behind. 
 
Over several years, Sophie has built up an archive of interviews with artists, architects and historians, all with direct experience of migration. During each interview, she asks her subjects to draw out a floor plan of the house they grew up in - a process which is filmed and later projected onto a 3D model. 
 
These physical models invite us inside the homes her subjects describe, encouraging us to relive memories with them and empathise with their experiences of loss.
 
Divided Selves: Memories, Legacies, Belonging is free to visit at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum until 24 September 2023. Find out more at theherbert.org.

Herbert Art Talks Episode 2: Serving Justice – Sofia Karim’s Turbine Bagh

From family recipes and rituals to snacks on the street, food plays a huge part in shaping our identities and structuring our day-to-day lives. It’s part of the power of Sofia Karim’s Turbine Bagh series, which transforms something as ordinary and everyday as street food wrapping into an eye-catching tool for political protest.
Developed in response to the female-led Shaheen Bagh protests in India, Turbine Bagh is a series of paper samosa packets printed with calls to free political prisoners. Conceived as an installation for the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, the series has evolved into an international movement, uniting artists and activists from different national, cultural and creative backgrounds around a shared cause.
In the second episode of our Divided Selves podcast, Sofia discusses the inspiration for the eries and the role of food in times of crisis. 
Divided Selves: Memories, Legacies, Belonging is free to visit at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum until 24 September 2023. Find out more at theherbert.org.

Herbert Art Talks Episode 1: Power Structures – Sofia Karim’s Architecture of Disappearance

How do we build the kind of world we want to live in? In the first episode of our Divided Selves podcast, artist, architect and activist Sofia Karim explores the structures that uphold power in societies – both literally and metaphorically. 
An Architecture of Disappearance is a series of small-scale architectural models inspired by Sofia’s correspondence with political prisoners. After years of working in architectural firms, the imprisonment of her own uncle prompted her to begin campaigning for the release of political prisoners – activism that eventually changed her career for good. 
Divided Selves: Memories, Legacies, Belonging is free to visit at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum until 24 September 2023. Find out more at theherbert.org.

Divided Selves - Episode 1 Teaser

How do we build the kind of world we want to live in? In the first episode of our Divided Selves podcast, artist, architect and activist Sofia Karim explores the structures that uphold power in societies – both literally and metaphorically. 
 
An Architecture of Disappearance is a series of small-scale architectural models inspired by Sofia’s correspondence with political prisoners. After years of working in architectural firms, the imprisonment of her own uncle prompted her to begin campaigning for the release of political prisoners – activism that eventually changed her career for good. 
 
Divided Selves: Memories, Legacies, Belonging is free to visit at the Herbert Art Gallery & Museum until 24 September 2023. Find out more at theherbert.org.