Brus Rubio
Place-making, World-making: Three Amazonian Artists Curated by Giuliana Borea Brus Rubio (b. Loreto, Peru, 1983) Lives and works in Lima and Paucarquillo. Brus Rubio is a visual artist and the director of Invisible Amazonia art gallery in Lima. He belongs to the Bora and Uitoto peoples from Loreto in Peru’s northern Amazon, and lives and […]
Rember Yahuarcani
Place-making, World-making: Three Amazonian Artists Curated by Giuliana Borea Rember Yahuarcani (b. Loreto, Peru, 1986) Lives and works in Lima and Pebas. Rember Yahuarcani is a visual artist, writer and activist. He belongs to the Uitoto Áimen people, and lives between Pebas – his hometown situated in Peru’s northern Amazon – and Lima, where he […]
Hetain Patel: Don’t Look at the Finger
Monday 8 March – Sat 27 March Don’t Look at the Finger follows a ceremonial ‘fight’ between a man and a woman in the grand architectural setting of a church. The way the characters communicate is a feat of choreography that combines Kung Fu with signed language to express a ritualistic coming together. The two […]
Maeve Brennan: Listening in the Dark
Monday 22 February – Sunday 7 March Listening in the Dark takes subtle but penetrating soundings of the extent of man-made incursions into nature by considering the nocturnal habits of bats, and how they are profoundly affected by the presence of wind turbines located near their regular flight paths. Like a bat out of the […]
Richard Whitby: The Lost Ones
Monday 8 February – Sunday 21 February A motley queue of individuals are seeking salvation. They are people in limbo – whose personal circumstances or economic situations have suddenly been re-evaluated and whose future status now seems conditional on a test they need to pass. Their fate will be decided, they learn, by an unseen […]
Mikhail Karikis: No Ordinary Protest
Monday 25 January – Sunday 7 February Combining sound, performance and unscripted debates, Mikhail Karikis’s film takes it cue form the short story The Iron Woman by Ted Hughes. In this story, children are the first to hear an eerie, supernatural noise, which is an emanation of the collective pain of creatures affected by the […]
The Royals, 2017-18
A collaborative project made with migrant workers in Jersey, the island famous for Jersey Royal potatoes.
The Aliens Act, 2019
Six stories of erasure are shared in this thought-provoking film.
What If As If, 2017
What If As If explores legal fictions as a device to open up possibilities in international immigration law in collaboration with refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants based in the UK, who trained as lawyers in their countries of origin. Legal fictions are devices used in legal reasoning when something not true is believed or assumed […]
My Friend’s Job, 2017
Pengamen, Jakarta’s street musicians, come from all walks of life and make a living singing Western and Indonesian pop songs. Working in collaboration with Alicja Rogalska they temporarily shifted their focus to political protest singing – taking inspiration from the legacy of Indonesian activist Iwan Fals – to create a new song and video about […]
Tear Dealer, 2014
On a high street lined with pawnshops, second-hand shops and loan sharks in Lublin, south east Poland, ‘Tear Dealer’ opened for a few days in July 2014. In the specially arranged premises, participants produced and sold their tears for €25 for 3ml (just over half a teaspoon). The project constituted a perverse reversal of the logic […]