Esther Teichmann is featured in Archipelago: Visions in Orbit, an original exhibition curated by students from the MA Curating Art and Public Programmes course – a unique one-year professional placement qualification, organised in collaboration with London South Bank University (LSBU).    

Bringing together a diverse range of artists, perspectives and mediums, Archipelago: Visions in Orbit takes the physiology of an archipelago – a cluster of distinct but connected islands – as a metaphor to frame and relate seemingly disparate artistic positions. 

With society becoming increasingly fragmented, exacerbated by heightened global geo-political tensions, the exhibition proposes an ‘archipelagic’ approach, aimed at illuminating a shared cultural fabric, while at the same time allowing for complex differences. 

Through the enigmatic and ethereal works of Esther Teichmann (b. 1980, Germany) and Jakob Rowlinson (b. 1990, UK); portrayals of emergence and reflection in the paintings of Jade de Montserrat’s (b. 1981, UK) and sculptural reliefs of Cameron Ugbodu’s (b. 2000, Austria), alongside considerations of diasporic histories in the performance documentations of Daniella Valz Gen (b. Unlisted, Peru) and Güler Ateş (b. 1977, Turkey), the exhibition presents a constellation of contemporary myth-makers, dreamers and artistic documentarians. Through their collective and individual narrative imaginings, the artists explore themes of migration, belonging and connection.  

The exhibition speaks to, and of, the Gallery’s historic location in Whitechapel, East London, a place that has and continues to see the coming together of migrant communities in a time of political polarisation.  

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