Image courtesy Chloe Filani
£10 / £5 MEMBERS / £5 CONCESSIONS
Join us for Soaring, an evening of poetry and performance to celebrate the final week of Christina Kimeze: Between Wood and Wheel.
Artists Victoria Adukwei Bulley, MA.MOYO and Chloe Filani will share work against the backdrop of Christina Kimeze’s paintings in the main gallery.
There will also be a reading of January Gill O’Neil’s Night at the Roller Palace, which inspired the title of the exhibition.
Originally inspired by the resurgence of roller skating in Black communities, Kimeze’s new paintings explore ideas of freedom, flight and escape, particularly from a female perspective.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Chloe AyoDeji Filani
Artist, Poet, Performer of sound art and Black Feminism. She’s of Nigerian Yoruba and Eshan heritage. Her work explores themes of identity and power structures, looking deeper into metaphysical and oral histories of Oriki praise poetry.
Her poetry has been published in Playing femme by 16nst gallery press, Boy brothers friend and Montez Press ‘Interjection Calendar, Also she has live recording of her poetry is on Anthems podcast and is on a vinyl recording from 180 studios with the poetry with collective Black geographies.
She’s performed poetry at ICA, Somerset House, Prim Black x Burberry collab, Blackgirl picnic, Writerz Scribez, Home gallery, Touching Bass, 180 studios Reference point, Soho House and much more.
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a poet, writer and artist. She is the winner of an Eric Gregory Award, and her critically acclaimed poetry debut, QUIET, won the Folio Prize for Poetry, the John Pollard Poetry Prize, and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. QUIET is published by Faber & Faber in the UK and in North America by Knopf.
MA.MOYO
Belinda Zhawi (b. Zimbabwe) is a literary & sound artist based in London, author of Small Inheritances (ignitionpress, 2018), & experiments with sound/text performance as MA.MOYO. She heavily collaborates with musicians – mainly with harpist Marysia Osu. Her literary & sound works have been featured on various platforms including The White Review, NTS, Boiler Room & BBC Radio. She’s held residencies with Triangle-Asterides, France; Cove Park, Scotland; Serpentine Galleries and ICA, London. She was a Brixton House Associate Artist 2022 – 24. Belinda’s the co-founder of literary arts platform, BORN::FREE.
ACCESS
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