Exhibition
Limbs of the Lunar Disc
23 May 2025 – 8 Jun 2025
Regular hours
- Friday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 12:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 12:00 – 18:00
Address
- 47 Theobalds Rd
- London
- London
England - WC1X 8SP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- There are lots of bus routes with stops between 3-5 minutes from our new venue. 59, 68, 91, 168, 188, N91, X68
- The nearest tube and train stations are: Holborn (3 minutes), Russell Square (6 minutes), Chancery Lane and Covent Garden (7minutes).
- The nearest mainline station are: Farringdon Rail and KingsCross ThamesLink.
About
For Limbs of the Lunar Disc, her first London solo show, Sarah Al-Sarraj presents a new digital work ‘Isthmus Ancient River’ commissioned by Helen Starr’s Mechatronic Library, alongside ‘Separated by Millennia’, a series of paintings commissioned by the Arab British Centre and Shubbak, curated by Jessica El Mal.
Predicated on the belief that the world we inhabit was built in service of imperial violence, these works explore new worlds underpinned by alternative temporalities; via narrative journeys through time, viewers are invited to engage with notions of deep time, ancestry and ecology.
Through paintings, ‘Separated by Millennia’ presents the lifeways of an imagined temporally-nomadic tribe, who use Islamic astronavigation instruments to manipulate time. While the new virtual work ‘Isthmus Ancient River’ offers a journey down the river of time. Flowing from the distant future to the recent past, we follow an Ancestor exploring the long term results of present day environmental violence and ongoing liberation movements. Both exhibited works explore imperial violence on a deep time scale, paying attention to the spiritual and metaphysical salience of the natural world.
Inspired by Laura Nasrallah’s concept of the ancestral assemblage, where we are duty bound to those who came before us, this exhibition asks how can we bring about intergenerational justice for those yet to come?
As We Are, Might Have Been and Could Be is an artist development programme at The Arab British Centre, which aims to provide opportunities for artists of Arab descent in the UK through commissions, exhibitions and events.
Limbs of the Lunar Disc is funded by the Arts Council England Project Grants.