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8 June 2022
Remains To Be Seen, Snape Maltings
I returned today to ‘Remains To Be Seen’, a poetic, meditative exhibition spread over the site at Snape
Maltings, showing the work of Paul Benney, Laurence Edwards and Kiki Smith. It is part of the Aldeburgh
Festival and runs until 26th June.
It is impressively curated by Isabel de Vasconcellos and feels very much an exhibition for the moment: a
meditation on mortality, belief, and survival, and on the fragility and strangeness of the human body.
Laurence Edwards’ stateless bronze figures wander into the reed beds at Snape, carrying the accoutrements
of their survival with them. They might be figures returning from, or going to war. Another figure,
titled Heft carries a great bundle of sticks in the opposite direction, as if building a shelter from storm-
fallen branches.
