ALL CAPITALS

 

Curated by Jonathan Hadari, Sarah Hopper and Lydia Seaman

Hypha Studios South Bank / Gallery 2, 42 Southwark Bridge Rd, London, SE1 9EU

PV: Thursday, 25th June 2026, 6 – 9pm
Open: 26th June – 26th July 2026

The show takes a reference from ‘The City of Clarice’ in Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, a city that repeatedly collapses and is rebuilt from fragments of its past. Each iteration gestures toward a future that never quite fits.

Fourteen early career artists working primarily with sculpture, installation and audio visual pieces have been invited to engage with themes of shifting value systems and changing attitudes. The body is explored through voice and performances that encourage community engagement. The city’s fabric exhibits humanity’s continual process at attempted erasure followed by reimagining or repurposing of its remnants.

The space itself, once data and finance offices, now functions as an art gallery, evidence of the evolution of architectural usage. Our city’s infrastructures have been developed to facilitate systems of economy and trade, the proximity to the river Thames a reminder of the international passage of goods and people into and out of the city.

The artists work with material as varied as foam, hair, clay, discarded metal, blue shirts, river silt. The gallery is a place to rehearse and inhabit with works that speak to the nature of the precarious and unstable and yet not in a way that despairs but by embracing chance and play. The collision of materials, practices and ways of being encourages collaboration.

Artists

Breeze Bee
Monika Drabot
Eric Fei
Jonathan Hadari
Sarah Hopper
Wesley Power
Nikita Savostyanov
Lydia Seaman
Jacob Sirkin
Philip Steele
Carter Tam
Daniel Rhys Wakefield
George Wigley
Minghao Wu

Artwork list

 

Breeze Bee

In Passing, 2026
Unfired clay
Dimensions variable

Monika Drabot

Sugar, 2026
Print
A3 x 10 (297 x 420mm)
A2 x 2 (420 x 595mm)

Eric Fei

Seen and Not Seen – 2026 Reimagine, 2026
Paintings on mini tri-vision billboards
each panel 35 x 26 cm

Jonathan Hadari and Simona Katsman

Don’t Pee While You’re Walking, My Dear, 2026
Video (55-inch, 122 × 71 cm) and mixed-media installation with metal, fabric, paper, breeze block and bicycle frame
Dimensions variable

Sarah Hopper

Diving for the Kill, Unnoticed, 2026
steel, fabric and mixed media
Dimensions variable

Nikita Savostyanov

The real thing (victorian edition) 01, 2026
64 x 185 x 50 cm

Lydia Seaman

Lunchtime, 2026
Shirts, pencil, metal and foam
Dimensions variable

Jacob Sirkin

Clarice, 2026
Canvas, plaster, CS85 Cassese bottom half, dust sheets, fishing line, scrap framing wood offcuts, candle
Dimensions variable

Philip Steele

God’s Punishment, 2025
Video
Dimensions variable

Carter Tam

Mobile Rosette Ribbon Badge Workshop and Zine Library, 2026
Wood and mixed media
Closed 150 x 50 x 130 cm
open 150 x 250 x 130 cm

Dan Wakefield

20 Tides (25/06/2026–26/07/2026), 2026
Ink on newsprint
297 x 420 mm

George Wigley

Mug tower (I), 2026
Foam
290h x 50w x 32d mm

PV Shots

contact information

Email: [email protected]
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