Current projects
Dreams and Dystopias - East Africa at the Crossroads
Dreams and Dystopias explores East Africa at the crossroads through the lens of photographer Guillaume Bonn whose camera captures the essence of a people caught between two worlds to suggest an unreachable disappearing past, barely effable but through the echoes of its fragments and traces. The poignancy of a past to which one can never return, yet one which remains ever present in its landscape of deserted dreams.
Opening 11 October, Zamana Space at the Ismaili Centre, London
Africa at the crossroads: from Maputo to Mogadishu
Join artist Guillaume Bonn and curator Rozemin Keshvani at the Royal Geographical Society to consider how reframing and re-contextualising post-colonial histories through photography and archival activation may promote remembering, dialogue and reconciliation.
28 October 2.30pm-4.00pm
Royal Geographical Society
The Locked Room: Four Years that Shook Art Education
In 1969, Saint Martin’s School of Art in London undertook a radical experiment in the teaching of sculpture. Students in the so-called 'A' Course were placed together in a large white room, locked from the inside. They were not permitted to speak to each other or their instructors while in the Locked Room. Fifty years later, this exhibition will explore, reflect upon, and reveal what really happened in the white room.
Opening 6th December, Laure Genillard Gallery, London
Exhibition Archive
Featured Writing
The Writing of Art Inspired by calligraphy
Presenting work inspired by traditional arts based on Persian and Arabic script, The Writing of Art explores the plasticity between word, idea and image, traditionally juxtaposed as discrete systems of the visual and the discursive to challenge the notion that globalisation destroys cultural identity. (IBRAAZ magazine)
John Nixon Various Colours on Various Paintings
The readymade, monochromatic colours and minimalist ideas are embedded in John Nixon's ‘non-objective constructed paintings’. Nixon, whose shows are self-curated (ARt-The Imagined State)
Fiona Banner 'Wp Wp Wp'
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Painted in black, graffiti-like on a wall outside the Longside Gallery are the letters 'Wp Wp Wp' onomatopoeia for the sound made by helicopter blades as they whoop-whoop through the air. It is playful, mischievous, yet ominously suggestive of a sound we equate with danger, apprehension, even fear. (ARt-The Imagined State)
Pip Benveniste Portrait of a forgotten artist
Pip Benveniste involvements and collaborations with contemporaries place her among the most avant-garde of British artists who were searching for new ways of responding the experience of life during and after World War II...(Pip Benveniste)
Ivor Davies Silent Explosion
Silent Explosion is an ambitious exhibition of the work and life of Ivor Davies set against the backdrop of the artist’s meticulously assembled archive, the jewel of which is unquestionably Davies’ exceptional collection of materials from the 1966 Destruction in Art Symposium.
Globale Allah's Automata
Al-Jazari of Bagdad lived during the Ayyubid dynasty in the 13th Century. Designer of the remarkable 'Elephant Clock', Al-Jazari was a notable mathematician and philosopher who created a formidable number of mechanical devices that revolutionized engineering at the time. (IBRAAZ)