CURATORIAL PROJECTS:

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2024 May - June - Vaivém, Francisca Pinto at Ostra, Lisbon

Vaivém, the first solo exhibition of Francisca Pinto, presented paintings and ceramics of birds hiding in the shadows of flirting feet, alongside faces blowing kisses or perhaps whispering secrets. Images without a fixed narrative that proposed various interpretations. They suggested an ever-changing sense of perspective. Pinto addresses themes of intimacy between people and objects, employing the concept of time as a transformative agent. In Vaivém, multiple temporal planes are represented; moments overlap and create —a vaivém— a back-and-forth between interior and exterior space, real and imagined, past and present. Vaivém reflects on the necessity of ‘making sense of things’ as a temporal experience — how meaning can shift and shape over time, revealing the process of image-making as a pendular movement between representation and perception.

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+Exhibition and catalogue supported by FLAD and the Flechada grant in Portugal. 

+​Reviewed by Umbigo Magazine, read here. ​

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2023 October - DIG IN: Maisie Maris & Laura Mallows at Staffordshire St Gallery

‘DIG IN’ is a collaborative project that celebrates food growing and eating by artists Maisie Maris and Laura Mallows and curator Mariana Lemos. Looking at ancient knowledge, folk tales and indigenous growing methods, the duo exhibition sets the table for a dinner celebrating the harvest. 

This exhibition aims to foster deeper connections with the soil and celebrate traditions of seasonality and reciprocity. Maris and Mallow's sculptures consider how symbols are created, charged with meaning and circulated across times and cultures. ‘

DIG IN’ is an exploration of sustainable practices, cycles, land, sisterhood, interspecies kinship and our connection to the food we eat.

Dinner will be served on Maisie Maris' sculpture on Sat 28 Oct cooked by Sam Riches (and friends) from the Woodmansterne School Kitchen with contributions such as readings and music from Phoebe Coco, Tyler Eash, Dot Jia, and Laura Plant.

​+Text and images here

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2022 December - 2023 January - INSOMNIA, Leah Clements at South Kiosk

Leah Clements’ practice includes performance, installation, writing and film to develop a language of chronic illness and disability. INSOMNIA was Clements’ first exhibition of photographic work. It looked into the emotional and psychological effects of insomnia-related sleep phenomena and sleep paralysis, through ambiguous and grainy photographs, accompanied by vocalised image descriptions.

INSOMNIA unfolded the surreal or paranormal side of being estranged from one’s own home, with body and mind thrown out of time, between hyper-alertness and loss of consciousness. In these images, shadows were lurking, eerie lights flickering, water, silence... Taken at night when the atmosphere drops and in the blink of an eye, the hinterland is revealed. 

Clements’ work often suggests this otherworldly space as a collective alternative to that of the present sick body. In INSOMNIA, we integrated creative access adjustments into the artwork, the exhibition-making process and the public programme. Generously supported by Arts Council England

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+Public programme published online by Chateau International, access here

+Exhibition reviewed by Art Papers, read here

+Artforum, here

+Hyperallergic, here 

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2021 September - Oceanic Feelings, Eletro Studios, Hastings 

Oceanic Feelings is an exhibition and collaboration between artists Becky Beasley w/ Beatrice Tailby Hardstaff, Clare Burnett, Leah Clement, Sam Smith w/ Project Artworks & curator Mariana Lemos 

The project is spurred by a desire to recognise embodied experience as a source of knowledge. Thinking of feeling as a way to break free from the mind and body divide, and to connect us to the world: feeling as one, whole, but also dispersed and multiplied like water. Generously supported by Arts Council England

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2021 August - Entanglements in Time, Lewisham Arthouse, London

Entanglements in Time is an exhibition at Lewisham Arthouse showcasing UK-based artists Bart Hajduk, Jasmin Märker, Kristina Pulejkova, Margo Trushina, Solveig Settemsdal and Yambe Tam, curated by Kristine Tan and Mariana Lemos. Shown together for the first time, the installation, virtual reality, drawing,  sculpture and video works challenge anthropocentric markers of temporality by examining timelines that stretch far beyond the duration of human existence. Neither optimistic nor pessimistic, the artists explore multiple ways of viewing ecological relationships. It is by acknowledging how we cannot extricate ourselves from this ‘mesh’ that we can look at ecology as a whole and acknowledge how we are intimately entangled with every living and non-living thing in time.

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2019 June - ongoing - Plants Speak If We Listen

It's an ongoing project of symposiums in collaboration with a working group of artists and researchers with an interest in more than human subjectivities. These events were formerly hosted by Black Tower and Chisenhale Studios, and include workshops, performances, lecture-performances and presentations led by the different participants, in an attempt to address different branches of the topic of nature in their work.

We are starting a reading group to take place at the Feminist Library. 

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2020 February - As If, CCA Goldsmiths London

As If was a day of performances organised as part of the CCA public programme in support of the exhibition Transparent Things, featuring performances by Verity Birt, Rebecca Jagoe, Reba Maybury and Korallia Stergides. This was a collaborative project with curators Harriett Henderson, Dot Jia, Clementine Proby and Melanie Scheiner, exploring ‘fictioning’ as a methodology for world-making. 

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2019 March - The Table, Swiss Church London

The Table was an exhibition with artists Laura Mallows, Hannah Wilson, Rosa Johan Uddoh, Emily Perry and Munesu Mukombe; and a series of events including a screening of video art, performances, readings and workshops. The project aimed at challenging normalised power relations and discrimination, centred around the question “Who gets a seat at the table?” and working from within intersectional feminisms. 

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