I Said Fruit salad

I Said Fruit salad

Curated by Sara David and Alexis Parinas

1 Dec 2023—6 Jan 2024
Private view: Friday, 1st December 2023, 6 – 9pm
Public Dates: Tuesday – Friday, 12 – 6pm

Contact information
saradavid.art@gmail.com

We want to reimagine the space as a colourful, bustling and joyous “market place”. The selected artists collectively share cross-cultural themes of food as communion, rituals and repetition, play as resistance, and embodied memory and nostalgia. This warm, sensorial and active space will be filled with music and evocative visual signifiers of multicultural exchanges. The space will be open for business with performances and live events every few days, with some of the artists occupying stalls to sell their work.

Public Programme

Market Opening:

Opening event for artists and public. Live jazz by Jorge Jobim; collaborative performance by Nurin Yusof and Yasmine Aminanda.

Chai and Chill:

Weekly informal group discussion about show with local public, led by curator and Camden-based artist Sara David.

Film Night:

Larger projected screenings of moving image works.

Market Closure:

Closing event for artists and public. Closing-down sale of work. Knowitall Bakery Performance by Soyeon Kim

About the Curators:

Sara David (b.1998) is an Artist, Filmmaker and Associate Lecturer based in London. She works across experimental film and a socially engaged practice, using multi-sensory installations that allow audiences to participate actively in her works. Sara has recently been supported by the BFI for the AHRC-funded NHS Untold Stories Project to make the film Khichdi. The film will premiere at the Being Human Festival in November 2023 and go into the NHS on Film Archive on the BFI Player. In 2022, Sara was commissioned by Arts Council England and the Museum of London to make To Drummond Street with Love, a short film that was integrated into community programming for Camden residents by Camden People’s Theatre. She has been invited for talks across the BBC, the Barbican, Dark Yellow Dot and UAL.

Alexis Parinas (b.1999) is a London-based artist and youth facilitator working predominantly across moving image, painting and printing. Alexis has exhibited work across London at not/nowhere (2023), Rich Mix (2023), and the Barbican Centre (2019), and has been an artist-in-residence at Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (2021). They have also facilitated numerous workshops at Wysing Arts Centre, Central Saint Martins, and as part of The RISE Collective. Alexis is currently working on a year-long collaboration with year seven students at St Peter’s School in Huntingdon in collaboration with Wysing Arts Centre, as well as a two-year photography and oral history project with Creative People and Places Hounslow to archive Hounslow’s food markets.

I Said Fruit salad
Artists in the show
  • Reya Ahmed
  • Jorge Jobim
  • Leily Moghtader Mojdehi
  • Maryam Hina Hasnain
  • Alisha Kruse
  • Adanma Nwankwo
  • Mîtra Farhan
  • Hemali Khoosal
  • Amira Dabboussi
  • Ellen Warner
  • Yasmine Aminanda
  • Nurin Yusof
  • Hoa Dung Clerget
  • Koa Pham
  • Sarah-Louise Davila
  • Maryam Adam
  • Asha Fontenelle
  • Kajal Mistry
  • Soyeon Kim
  • Omar Radwan
  • Marion Aschbacher
  • Shengjia Zhang
  • Camilla Dilshat