Searching for Lost Rain is a curatorial project featuring works by artist Gala Porras-Kim, taking place at St Mary le Strand Church.
Bringing together two works, Precipitation for an Arid Landscape (2021–) and Mediating with the Rain (2021–), the exhibition explores what happens when sacred, ritual, or culturally significant objects are removed from the environments and beliefs that once gave them meaning. Over the course of the exhibition, visitors are invited to add rainwater collected on the Strand to the sculpture. They are symbolically returning rainwater to the traces of objects once placed in the Sacred Cenote. This gesture reconnects these objects to the ceremonies interrupted by their removal into museum collections.
While the project does not attempt to resolve the histories the artworks invoke, it makes them materially, spiritually, and institutionally present within St Mary le Strand Church, a site shaped by belief, memory, and care.
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