Snake Lotus Exhibition Opening (Edinburgh)

Join us for the Edinburgh opening of Snake Lotus by Nikki Kilburn; a featured artist in this year's Spit it Out festival.

Nikki Kilburn

Nikki Kilburn is a narrative photographer, writer and sound producer interested in capturing stories of identity, her creative practice reflects the lived experience of people and communities that have been historically marginalised. Nikki's work includes being alongside people to tell their stories. Merging this with contextual research she illustrates a collective experience. Through her photographic and audio work, she is exploring themes of rootlessness and the disruption between nature's instinct to survive and being denied the opportunity for justice, and healing.

Snake Lotus

On the understanding we carry an ancestral language of suffering and knowing our daily lives are imposed by systems of patriarch and capitalism experiences of annihilation are normalised. This means aspects of our collective unconscious are a potential battleground between our instinctual nature to survive and our need for safety, nurture, and love. From this background, Nikki engages in a series of shamanic death rituals to deconstruct the survival mode of the ego, shadow and persona. Birthing multi-narrative reflecting archetypal themes within our collective unconscious life, death, and rebirth cycle.

Interested in the marginal experience Nikki’s work reflects the subject of identity, belonging, equality and justice. She weaves a statement of imagery and audio that simultaneously; invites us to reflect on and question our relationship with the social constructs bound within the paradigm of power and the body.

Sierra Metro

The Sierra Metro's regular operating hours are 10 PM to 2 PM

16+ | TW: Images and audio relating to violence against women and trauma

Wheelchair accessible | Quiet room available

Pay As You Can

Spaces are limited so please only book a ticket if you can make it. If your plans change, please let us know and we can offer the ticket to someone on our waitlist.

By registering for this event you are agreeing to the possibility of photographs and videos being taken. Some of the imagery may end up on social media providing a visual overview of the event. If you would prefer not to be included, please inform one of the onsite Spit it Out team.

Host or Publisher Spit it Out