Realised by The Courtauld Institute of Art’s 2020 MA Curating the Art Museum programme, this first fully digital exhibition has emerged in the exceptional circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and its disruption to education and arts institutions globally.

Unquiet Moments: Capturing the Everyday, curated by the MA Curating the Museum students, “celebrates the recording of everyday life through the making of art. The images and objects in this exhibition capture small wonders and disappointments, intimate joys and tragedies. As diaries of personal experience, portraits of families and communities, and traces of loss, these artworks illuminate the moments that shape our individual and collective histories….

The exhibition was initially to take place in Somerset House, and Unquiet Moments was conceived in response to a chapter of Somerset House’s history as the site of the public Register of Births, Deaths, and Marriages. In its adapted, digital form, the exhibition speaks to a time in which a global pandemic has altered the rhythms of daily life for many. With works of art drawn from the Arts Council Collection and The Courtauld Gallery, Unquiet Moments calls attention to the diversity of day-to-day life as experienced across many times and places. Spanning four centuries of artistic practice, these works testify to an enduring impulse to record, reflect upon, and reimagine the everyday.”

- Deborah Swallow, the Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art

Three of Karshan’s works are included in the Visual Diary section of the online exhibition.
All works are from the Arts Council Collection, Southbank Centre, London.

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“From a simple repertoire of horizontal and vertical lines, Linda Karshan creates a near-infinity of different possible arrangements. Her marks and patterns are abstract, yet the series of lines also suggest the rhythm of breathing and walking.

She describes her drawings as capturing ‘the creative moment when the work comes into being, and the artist recognizes it’. Her quick, simple marks catch this moment as it passes through her body and onto the page. Each of these drawings recalls to her a specific day when she stood at her studio table.”

- Elizabeth Keto, Curator

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Online catalogue can be viewed HERE.