UNITOM Projects
Exhibition space dedicated to contemporary visual culture.
21 - 23 Quay St, Manchester M3 4AE
Currently Exhibiting
'Goof City' by Mary Lou Lawless-Gill
Showing 5th June until 11th July
Goof City takes its title from The Beat Generation concept coined by poet and activist Ed Sanders. First introduced in his 1963 “Poem from Jail”, it describes an imagined, anarchic and peaceful society, a warless “city on the hill” centred on laughter, art, and community, often linked to the East Village and Lower East Side.
The exhibition brings together a body of work that explores urban life through constructed scenes that sit between memory, observation, and fiction. Across the show, figures appear within quiet, fragmented moments that suggest a wider shared world, where everyday encounters and imagined narratives overlap. The works hold scenes in suspension, allowing meaning to shift between intimacy and distance, and between what is seen and what is remembered.
