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V.O. artist Laila Majid’s first institutional exhibition ‘Inner Heat’, in collaboration with Louis Blue Newby, is on view at Goldsmiths CCA until 12 January 2025.

The exhibition brings together meticulously crafted drawings sourced from the digital sphere, and sculptural elements inspired by public infrastructure, to examine the tension between private image consumption and the public realm. It invites viewers to reflect on how we interact with images and reconsider their transformative journey from creation to consumption.

Image: Courtesy of the Artist and Goldsmiths CCA. Photography by Rob Harris.

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Former resident Joseph Yaeger’s solo exhibition ‘Heaven’s Trash’ is on view at Antenna Space, Shanghai, until 4 January 2025. Inspired by Roland Barthes’ concept of ‘the punctum’, Yaeger’s work examines the tension between attraction and disturbance. His cropped compositions, both jarring and enticing, blur the boundaries of legibility, revealing and withholding just enough to evoke a charged sense of emotional and spatial ambiguity.

Image: Courtesy of the Artist and Antenna Space. Photography by Cra and Michael Brzezinski.

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V.O artist Sunil Gupta is featured in ‘The Imaginary Institution of India: Art 1975–1998’ at the Barbican, on view until 5 January 2025. This major exhibition examines a pivotal period in India’s history, marked by social upheaval, economic collapse, and rapid urbanisation.

Gupta’s series ‘Exiles’ captures gay men against iconic New Delhi landmarks and cruising sites. These images explore the profound challenges faced by gay men at a time when homosexuality was still criminalised in India.

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Last chance to see Jean-Marie Appriou’s solo exhibition ‘Exonaut Horizon’ at Perrotin Paris, closing on 16 November. Drawing on Egyptian and Greek mythology, the exhibition transforms the gallery into an immersive environment with sculptures in aluminum, bronze, marble, and lava, ranging in scale. Inspired by cosmic discovery, his works inhabit a realm beyond reality, populated by mythical beings and primordial matter in transformation.

Image: Courtesy of the Artist and Perrotin Paris. Photography by Tanguy Beurdeley.

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Don’t miss former resident Emma Prempeh’s solo exhibition ‘Wandering Under A Shifting Sun’ at Tiwani Contemporary, London, on view until 16 November. Through layered scenes of people, events, and interiors, Prempeh reimagines landscapes as extensions of memory, exploring themes of home, belonging, and identity. Prempeh includes projected still or moving imagery, and reflects on decolonial land rights and diasporic insights from her recent experiences in Uganda.

Image: Courtesy of the Artist and Tiwani Contemporary. Photography by Deniz Guzel.

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Alessio Bolzoni’s solo exhibition THERE’S A FINE LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE, YOU SEE is currently on view at 56 Conduit Street and runs until 6 July. The exhibition interrogates the overwhelming reproduction of imagery in contemporary culture through Bolzoni’s distinct series.

In Accumulo, each diptych pairs a reappropriated black-and-white photograph from the 1950s and 60s with a recent color image sourced from newspaper reproductions. This juxtaposition of old and new invites viewers to reflect on the cyclic nature of visual motifs and the inevitable repetition in today’s image-saturated culture. by @vocurations

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We are delighted to announce the opening of ‘THERE’S A FINE LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE, YOU SEE’, a solo exhibition by Alessio Bolzoni, on view from 21st June to 6th July at 56 Conduit Street.

Reflecting on the inundation of images in contemporary society, Bolzoni appropriates archival photographic images and stitches together diverse periods and places, probing at today’s excessive production of imagery and the somewhat bemusing consequence of unintended repetitions. Bolzoni’s work has a knowing, self-critical edge as he participates as a contributor to this excess himself, whilst also exploring the comfort and continuity found in familiar images.

Private view: Friday 21st June, 6PM - 8PM at 56 Conduit Street.

Image: Alessio Bolzoni, ‘ACCUMULO #03’ (2023), C-print. Courtesy of the artist. by @vocurations

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Tomorrow at 56 Conduit street London at 4:30PM — Free admission

During this momentum Adama Keïta and Henrique J. Paris will be engaging in an open and interactive conversation on the crossroads of drawing a curatorial landscape through Stuart Hall’s essays on the foundation of cultural studies ( 1990 - 2000 ) . The speakers will discuss the subtle and dense links between the artist’s body of work and the curator’s thinking in relation to the selected essays for the exhibition “ weaving through sonorities “ .

Adama and Henrique will be discussing ideas surrounding themes of culture , race and representation extracted from Stuart Hall critical essay , and in continuity to this : how the curatorial process becomes a form of translation , translating Hall’s thinking into a visual and materialized experience that encourages different interpretations and reflections.

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The Biennale is here again, and we couldn’t be more proud to unveil the ensemble of V.O Artists featured in this year’s edition! Don’t miss out:

1. Koo Jeong A at the South Korean Pavillon

This year marks Koo Jeong A’s fourth participation in the Venice Biennale, following her involvement in the 1995, 2001, and 2003 editions. Representing South Korea, Koo has transformed the steel national pavilion into a ‘scent journey’ with different aromas representing different rural areas, towns and cities in Korea, serving as a place for sensory experience, and functioning as a community of memory.

2. Sandra Poulson at the Arsenale, Biennale College Arte

Sandra Poulson presents her commission for the Biennale College Arte, located in the Arsenale. The exhibition Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere is described by the curator as ‘a celebration of the foreign, the distant, the outsider, the queer, as well as the indigenous’. This marks Poulson’s second Venice Biennale participation, following her commission for the British Pavillion’s Dancing Before the Moon presentation at the Architecture Biennale last year.

3. Onyeka Igwe at the Nigerian Pavilion

This year marks Onyeka Igwe’s debut at the Biennale, where she joins the esteemed company of Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, Precious Okoyomon, and Toyin Ojih Odutola as part of the Nigerian Pavilion. Curated by Aindrea Emelife, the exhibition Nigeria Imaginary explores different perspectives and constructed ideas, memories of and nostalgia for Nigeria, with a scope that is cross-generational and inter-geographic.

4. Rhea Dillon at Palazzo Diedo, presented by The Kitchen

Presented by the Kitchen, New York, Rhea Dillon unveils two new works at the inauguration of Berggruen Arts & Culture’s new space at the Palazzo Diedo. Set within the recently transformed 18th-century building, Dillon’s pieces are showcased alongside screenings of Koo Jeong A’s latest film and site-specific commissions from acclaimed international artists including Urs Fischer, Carsten Höller, Ibrahim Mahama, Mariko Mori, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lee Ufan, and Liu Wei.

5. Sola Olulode at Palazzo Pisani S. Marina, presented by Unit by @vocurations

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In conjunction with the exhibition, 'Weaving Through Sonorities', a group exhibition curated by Adama Keïta, we are delighted to host ‘Drawing a Curatorial Discourse From Stuart Hall’s Thinking: A Conversation with Adama Keïta and Henrique J Paris’.

Join us on Saturday 27th April between 4.30 - 5.30PM as the curator, Adama Keïta, and researcher, Henrique J Paris discuss the exhibition in relation to themes of culture, race and representation through the lens of Stuart Hall’s Cultural Studies.

Register via link in bio.

Credit: Henrique J Paris, ‘Tactility: Ethics of Cultural Heritage and Land’ (2023). Photo by Jeremy Chan. Courtesy of the artist. by @vocurations

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We are delighted to announce the public programme events of the exhibition, ‘Weaving Through Sonorities’, curated by Adama Keïta running from 10th - 27th April at 56 Conduit Street.

Join us on Saturday 13th April between 2.30PM - 4.30PM for ‘Materializing Caribbean Rhythmic’ a weaving workshop with participating artist, Tania Arancia Marie, which explores the relationship between rhythmic textile practices and the concept of memory. Attendees will be taught different weaving techniques and are invited to weave intuitively in response to a listening session.

Register via link in bio.

Credit: Courtesy of Tania Arancia Marie. by @vocurations

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Join us next Wednesday 10th April for the opening of 'Weaving Through Sonorities', a group exhibition curated by Adama Keïta, running until 27th April at 56 Conduit Street.

Participating artists are Phoebe Collings-James, Minia Biabiany, Candice Zogo, Tania Arancia Marie and Deanna Naomi Nelson-Mckie.

Articulated as a discourse on culture, power and representation, the exhibition explores the landscape of Caribbean cultural phenomena in (pre) - modernity whilst approaching Caribbean Sonorities by interiority. Drawing upon Stuart Hall’s Cultural Studies theory, the exhibition examines how cultural artifacts both reflect and influence society, probing the ways they can reinforce or challenge existing power structures, ideologies, and social representations.

Private View: Wednesday 10th April, 6PM - 9PM at 56 Conduit Street.

Credit: Deanna Naomi Nelson-Mckie, ‘Lola Artefact’ (2022), corn layered around calabash fragment with printed image on leather and beading. Courtesy of the artist. by @vocurations

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