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  • The Decorators 'Sofa Bread, Portal Tables' (2021) activated with the performance Resting (2021) by Laura Wilson, performed by Elina Akhmetova and Piedad Seiquer with costumes by Lucie Kordacova. Photography by Sergio Márquez & The Decorators. Commissioned by the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kington University. Filmed on location at The Picker House, Kingston upon Thames.

    The Decorators 'Sofa Bread, Portal Tables' (2021) activated with the performance Resting (2021) by Laura Wilson, performed by Elina Akhmetova and Piedad Seiquer with costumes by Lucie Kordacova. Photography by Sergio Márquez & The Decorators. Commissioned by the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kington University. Filmed on location at The Picker House, Kingston upon Thames.

  • The Decorators 'Cheese-Board, Portal Tables' (2021) activated by Inês Neto dos Santos. Photography by Sergio Márquez & The Decorators. Commissioned by the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kington University.

    The Decorators 'Cheese-Board, Portal Tables' (2021) activated by Inês Neto dos Santos. Photography by Sergio Márquez & The Decorators. Commissioned by the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kington University.

  • The Decorators 'Kimchi-Pool, Portal Tables' (2021) activated by participants of the Kimjang Project, led by Justina Jang, festival director of the Kingston Korea Festival. Photography by Sergio Márquez & The Decorators. Commissioned by the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kington University.

    The Decorators 'Kimchi-Pool, Portal Tables' (2021) activated by participants of the Kimjang Project, led by Justina Jang, festival director of the Kingston Korea Festival. Photography by Sergio Márquez & The Decorators. Commissioned by the Stanley Picker Gallery, Kington University.

Exhibition

The Decorators: Portal Tables

18 Nov 2021 – 5 Feb 2022

Regular hours

Thursday
11:00 – 17:00
Friday
11:00 – 17:00
Saturday
11:00 – 17:00
Tuesday
11:00 – 17:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 17:00

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Stanley Picker Gallery

Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom

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Portal Tables reflects on the paradoxical way in which the pandemic has both vilified microbes and prompted a renewed interest in homemade practices of nurturing microbial life.

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The Decorators is an interdisciplinary design collective founded by Suzanne O’Connell, Carolina Caicedo, Xavi Llarch Font and Mariana Pestana. Their Fellowship project Portal Tables reflects on the paradoxical way in which the pandemic has both vilified microbes and prompted a renewed interest in homemade practices of nurturing microbial life. Taking the idea of commensality - eating together - and extending it beyond the human, Portal Tables considers how microbial bodies participate in such encounters. The project was launched with the online video-essay Portal Tables: Connecting Multiscalar Communities and a preview of work staged at the V&A for London Design Festival 2021 before being premiered in full at the Stanley Picker Gallery from 18 November 2021. 

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