Event
Rafael Pérez Evans, Brown Notes I, 2026. C-type photograph. Courtesy the artist
DARCH, Heaven in the Ground, 2025. Liverpool Biennial 2025 at FACT.
Join us at Mostyn on Saturday, 11th July to celebrate the opening of our new exhibitions followed by a conversation between artists Umulkhayr Mohamed and Radha Patel from DARCH and Rafael Pérez Evans:
Exhibition Launch
10:30am – 4:30pm
Artists in Conversation
11:30am – 12:30pm
Rafael Pérez Evans: Brown Notes
Brown Notes is a solo exhibition by Spanish-Welsh artist Rafael Pérez Evans, bringing together shattered glass, ready-made sculpture, live plants and sound to explore togetherness and defiance under the pressures of failing care.
The title borrows from the myth of the “brown note”: an infrasound frequency believed to cause involuntary loss of bodily control. In the exhibition, that low, unrelenting vibration gives form to state-induced fear: the acute pressure of depending on systems that are overstretched and withdrawing support.
Brown Notes is supported by The Henry Moore Foundation, The Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs (OCSA) of the Embassy of Spain, The Institute Cervantes in London, and CELF. Rafael’s doctoral research is supported by Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP studentship and The Queen’s College, Oxford scholarship.
Special thanks to Ezra Badou for dramaturgical support, Lola Pederson for production assistance, sound engineer Adam Ben David & Jon Roome, and the Ruskin School of Art.
DARCH: Heaven in the Ground
Heaven in the Ground is an exhibition by DARCH, the collaborative practice of disabled Welsh artists Umulkhayr Mohamed and Radha Patel. Their work seeks creative ways to articulate care-centred practices for people of colour, with an approach grounded in solidarity and liberation.
Touching on concepts of the afterlife, the relationship between life and death, and the need to acknowledge the labour of other species, DARCH ask us to consider the soil and the bedrock that upholds it as a space that is shared equally amongst all species – plants, animals – and our ancestors, both human and more-than-human – and one through which we can collectively bring into being a gentler and more compassionate world.
This exhibition challenges the colonial degeneration associated with the underground, often considered the final layer of hell in both Abrahamic and Dharmic religions. Instead, DARCH presents the belief that heaven – not hell – is in the ground beneath our feet, and that it is sacred because it holds life and death in a never-ending cycle.
‘Heaven in the Ground’ was originally co-commissioned for Liverpool Biennial 2025, BEDROCK, by At The Library/Rule of Threes Arts and Liverpool Biennial, with generous support from FACT Liverpool.
