The Everyworld Exhibition
More details: https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/13730/the-everyworld-exhibition
A multimedia jaunt through an exuberant kaleidoscope of family, myth and the creative spirit from award-winning filmmaker and artist Andrew Kötting and daughter, Eden.
Undershed, Bristol’s new gallery from Watershed, is delighted to announce its first exhibition for 2026, The Everyworld, which will open on Friday 23 January and run to Sunday 12 April 2026. The exhibition invites audiences into a joyous collision of visions, fragments and memories from award-winning experimental filmmaker Andrew Kötting and his daughter Eden who was born with the rare neurological condition — Joubert Syndrome.
The Everyworld celebrates the extraordinary creative collaboration between father and daughter, bringing together elements from multiple artworks created over the last 25 years. Spanning virtual reality, giant inflatable ‘Deadad’ sculptures, the moving image, detailed sketchbooks and more, the exhibition is an archaeological deep dig into the creative heart of Kötting family life, celebrating the creative spirit, grief and togetherness.
Two artworks sit at the heart of the exhibition. A new edition of groundbreaking immersive VR experience The Tell Tale Rooms, a 15-minute father-daughter collaboration exploring Louvyre, their Pyrenean family farmhouse. Blending animation, archive material, and live action, it celebrates the wonders of Eden’s rare syndrome and her distinctive fantastical world.
In the Wake of a Deadad, sees two towering inflatables of Andrew’s father and grandfather — the ‘Deadads’ — accompanied by a poetic looping film of a journey taken with the inflatables to places of family significance. From the family grave in Germany to nieces kissing the inflatable ‘Deadad’ in a brother’s garden and trips to the Faroe Islands and Mexico, the piece is a powerful and surreal reflection on grief, memory and the tangled relationships many of us have with close family members.
Accompanying these pieces are a curated selection of further short films and artworks from two decades of shared artistic practice, a bricolage of sculptures, costumes, objects, and books created by Andrew and Eden.
