Working Space: One-third of a Slice
curated by Nayanika Singh
50 Celebration Avenue, Stratford E20 1DB
PRIVATE VIEW: Thursday 18th April 2024, 6 – 9pm
EXHIBITION OPEN: 19th April – 19th May 2024
Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 6pm
Kindly supported by Get Living
What is an artist’s working space? What fraction of the significant whole does it hold in their practice? How does its absence and presence impact an artist’s work? How do alternate spaces influence ‘the rest of the slice’? Can we turn spatial limitations into a source of limitless artistic exploration and expression? Are the existing opportunities truly enough?
Working Space: One-Third of a Slice is an attempt to reflect on seven emerging artists’ nuanced struggles with space and consequential interventions. The artists’ multidisciplinary practices draw on inter-relational themes, spanning drawing, painting, video, sound, sculpture, embroidery, textiles, installation and performance. While they are exploring multi-faceted issues like identity politics, socio-cultural influences, and decolonisation, what connects them is the spatial exploration that brings their struggle to navigate the tight constraints of studio and exhibition spaces to the fore. In a regenerated locality, Hypha Studios is a repurposed site built upon a former industrial area within the East Village in Stratford. Hosted here, Working Space highlights transformation and reimagining as central to exploring and expanding artistic boundaries. Whether phenomenologically or pragmatically, the varied body of works enters a spatial dialogue—liminal, physical, and psychological.
Curated by Nayanika Singh
Nayanika is an interdisciplinary practitioner with experience leading and managing digital curatorial projects in India and the UK. Having studied design, humanities, and cultural studies, she recently delivered a community-based photographic exhibition with the Radical Beauty Project charity. Nayanika is interested in the role of text and interpretive knowledge in cultural storytelling and explores it via mediums like sound, poetry, and fiction.
The exhibition showcases work by AC Larsen, Alexandra Warren, Fahiem Abdullah, Margarita Frančeska Ieva Loze, Tanvi Ranjan, and artist duo – Krati Doshi & Christina Karava featuring as Balcony Balloon.
We offer free temporary project space or more permanent studio space to remove the financial obstacles from displaying and making work.
Artists
AC Larsen
Alexandra Warren
Fahiem Abdullah
Margarita Frančeska Ieva Loze
Krati Doshi & Christina Karava featuring as Balcony Balloon
Tanvi Ranjan
public programme
They seek to engage the public through a range of events including:
An exhibition opening event, open to the public.
A curator-led exhibition tour followed by an artist panel talk inviting local creatives and university students to attend and discuss their personal relationships to, and experiences with, lack of affordable artistic spaces in London.
A performance and play workshop which seeks to engage young children and the local community in a collective re-imagining of space through the body and our physical relationship to architecture.
Screenings of films followed by discussions + Q&A led by the curator and artists.
contact information
Email: [email protected]
Socials: @fahiem_ab, @krati.doshi, @_lilb0at_, @_tanviranjan_, @ac_larsen, @alex_warren, @margarita.i.loze
private view
Installation Shots
Portfolio
Featured Artworks
Fahiem Abdullah
Fahiem Abdullah
Fahiem Abdullah
Balcony Balloon
Margarita Frančeska Ieva Loze
Margarita Frančeska Ieva Loze
Tanvi Ranjan
Tanvi Ranjan
AC Larsen
AC Larsen
Tanvi Ranjan
Tanvi Ranjan
Alexandra Warren
Alexandra Warren
Alexandra Warren
