Exhibition: Our Ghosts, Our Shells (Endgame): David Blandy and Petra Szemán
Two Queens, Leicester
29 Nov – 20 Dec, open Thurs-Sat 12-5pm
Opening Night Friday 28th Nov, 6-9pm
Curated by Rebecca Edwards with support from Gino Atwood at Two Queens
Our Ghosts, Our Shells (Endgame) concludes a year-long collaborative project by Petra Szemán and David Blandy bridging the realms of identity and selfhood, reality and simulation, and experience and fantasy.
In an era when identities are increasingly fragmented across digital landscapes, Our Ghosts, Our Shells questions how we reconcile our dispersed selves within today’s techno-political milieu. By opening and mending the cracks between player/world and character/creator, the work challenges the nature of agency and identity across platforms of existence. In a hyper-connected age where Away From Keyboard is never quite separate from Meatspace, how we become entangled with alter-egos, doppelgängers, and second-selves reveals the porous boundaries of how we perform, remember, and relate while inhabiting multiple versions of self, both on- and off-screen.
Supported by Arts Council England
Our Ghosts, Our Shells (Endgame), David Blandy and Petra Szemán, 2025, Supported by Arts Council England
Two Queens
2 Queen Street
Leicester LE1 1QW