Exhibition

Gallery 31: The Voices of A Tempest

2 Dec 2022 – 19 Mar 2023

Regular hours

Friday
11:00 – 20:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00
Monday
10:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 20:00
Thursday
11:00 – 20:00

Free admission

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Somerset House

London, United Kingdom

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A new exhibition for Somerset House Studios’ Gallery 31, programmed by exploratory producing platform A---Z (Anne Duffau), featuring works from Babeworld x utopian_realism, Michael & Chiyan Ho, and Tarek Lakhrissi.

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In response to the research of poet and politician Aimé Césaire, in particular Une Tempête, his adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest as a critique of colonialism, the works in Gallery 31's The Voices of A Tempest take classic and cult genres - from sci-fi to slashers - as references to invoke fictional activism through their storytelling.

Artist and poet Tarek Lakhrissi’s utopian short film Out of The Blue turns the sci-fi alien invasion trope on its head to empower the Queer community, where the minority becomes the new ruler of Earth. In Empty Orchestra, multi-disciplinary duo Michael and Chiyan Ho reappropriate a music video of Paula Tsui (a Cantopop singer from Hong Kong) to address censorship via an eerie, blurry karaoke-style version of the video in which the viewer is invited to partake in the sing-along poem.

Newly commissioned for Gallery 31, Babeworld x utopian_realism’s analogue short film, soundscape and ‘bloody’ installation Derby Day is a violent investigation into the art world with a critical eye on intersectionality; defying and reclaiming this space whilst also conjuring a threshold into new potentials. 

CuratorsToggle

Anne Duffau

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Babeworld

Babeworld

Michael and Chiyan Ho

Alessandro Moroni

Tarek Lakhrissi

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