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Upcoming in 2022

Deptfordx Fringe Festival 2022 18th-25th of September
Premis de Manacor at Museum of Manacor, opening on the 24th of September, (Majorca),Spain.
RAW at STS gallery, London opening 13th of October.
´Emerging from the rubble collaboration - STS Gallery opening 20th of October
S´Soft Façade¨ exhibition at Gerald Moore Gallery, London, PV 17th of November.
In May 2022 presented R&D workshop for the Penelope Project (a collaboration with the artist Helen David) at the LSE women´s library, de https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/events/general/the-penelope-project-workshop-explore-gender-politics-and-sexual-inequality (Planned show in spring 2023)

Please join us for the private view of the 2021 Bow Open | Aboutface: regroup, reorganise, reimagine.

Selected by Leyla Reynolds, artist, curator and gal-dem founding member on Thursday 7 October, 6-9pm, with a live performance from Isabel Castro Jung.

Leyla Reynolds has selected 24 artists for Bow Arts’ annual Open Show, all responding to her title, Aboutface: regroup,reorganise, reimagine. Jung’s performance incorporates wearable sculpture as a form of protective amour and anextension of the body itself. The garment, weighing over 50kg is made of castanets reflecting on the wearer’s Spanishheritage, and presents the question of an individual’s history as something that weighs heavily upon us, something wecarry with us through life.

Following a year that has challenged those in the cultural sector particularly, gal-dem’s Bow Open demonstrates thepower of artists and their imaginations to regroup following disaster, and reorganise with humour, frankness and inspiringvisual potency. Works range from politically charged banners, a delicate spine of ceramic COVID masks and jewelleryinspired by the Hindu Goddess Kali Ma, a beacon of hope and resistance to anti-colonial movements during the Bengalrevolution. Powerfully commenting on many of the overarching political themes of the past year – gender identity, theenvironment, the pandemic, decolonisation, digital overload – the exhibition offers realism, satire, beauty and optimism.

Exhibiting artists: Nitin Amin; Annamaria Antonazzo; Reza Ben Gajra; Nell Brookfield; Victoria Burgher; Ellie Burkett;Isabel Castro Jung; Nathalie Coste; Franco Di Cesare; Tom Foulsham; Romulo Gonçalves; Rebecca Griffiths; NicciJames; Eve Lam; Rachel Mercer; Marcus Orlandi; Harry Owens; Ayesha Sureya Patel; Tabitha Powles; Luke AnthonyRooney; Kyungmin Sophia Son; Scallywag Fox; Tara Versey; Toby Wilson.

RSVP nunnery@bowarts.com | #BowOpen

All work for sale using the affordable Own Art scheme

Exhibition open 8 October – 19 December 2021

Nunnery Gallery 181 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ Tube Bow Road DLR Bow Church Cycle CS2