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Hervé Télémaque: A Hopscotch of the Mind
Exhibition Exhibition

Hervé Télémaque: A Hopscotch of the Mind

Serpentine South Gallery 7 October 2021 – 30 January 2022

Hervé Télémaque brings together striking combinations of historical and literary references with those of consumer and popular culture.

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James Barnor
Exhibition Exhibition

James Barnor: Accra/London - A Retrospective

Serpentine North Gallery 30 Mar — 24 Oct 2021

British-Ghanaian photographer James Barnor's has recorded major social and political changes in London and Accra.

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Date: c.1966 Caption: A group of friends photographed during Mr. And Mrs Sackey’s wedding, London Courtesy Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière @clementinedelaferonniere

Family FOTO

For artist James Barnor, family and community were a constant source of inspiration in his photography. Family FOTO is an international family album inspired by...

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Serpentine Studios
Project Project

Serpentine Studios

From September 2021

Meet Serpentine Studios, Serpentine's new youth collective.

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Sophia Al-Maria: Taraxos
Public Art

Sophia Al-Maria: Taraxos

Serpentine Gallery 21 June 2021 — 24 April 2022

A new sculpture by Sophia Al-Maria, 'taraxos' is a model for understanding and listening to the world.

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Taraxos: A Wish is a Form of Travel
Digital Digital

Taraxos: A Wish is a Form of Travel

Online 20 Mar — 31 Aug 2021

For part two of Taraxos, on the Spring Equinox, we move in reverse and take flight.

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Art & Ideas

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Excavating the Social Layers of London
Article

Excavating the Social Layers of London

Colin Prescod responds to Sumayya Vally’s extensive research into diasporic sites of meeting, organising and belonging across London.

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Recipes as Archive: Marie Mitchell
Article

Recipes as Archive: Marie Mitchell

Chef Marie Mitchell reflects on the ancestral nature of food and its capacity to heal.

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Counterimage
Article

Counterimage

Emanuel Admassu responds to the 2021 Serpentine Pavilion.

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Recipes as Archive: Angela Dimayuga

Recipes as Archive: Angela Dimayuga

Chef Angela Dimayuga speaks about the personal and collective histories held in recipes.

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Recipes as Archive: Sanza Sandile
Article

Recipes as Archive: Sanza Sandile

Chef Sanza Sandile reflects on 20 years spent cooking for a diverse and vibrant community of migrants in Johannesburg's Yeoville.

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Belonging in Unbelonging: Sumayya Vally & Adrian Lahoud in Conversation
Article

Belonging in Unbelonging: Sumayya Vally & Adrian Lahoud in Conversation

"Architecture is an extension of who we are and how we recognize ourselves and how we assert our forms of belonging."

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James Barnor Through the Lens of the New Generation

James Barnor Through the Lens of the New Generation

A new era of artists, photographers, filmmakers and fashion designers reflect on James Barnor's enduring influence.

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Serpentine Podcast: Playtesting
Audio

Serpentine Podcast: Playtesting

In Playtesting, we speak to artists working with the metaverse, from counter archives for Black liberation to decentralised frameworks.

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Forest Dreaming with Alvar Aalto

Forest Dreaming with Alvar Aalto

Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen explores the complex relationship between the wood designs of Alvar Aalto and the forests of his native Finland.

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Courtesy of Himali Singh Soin
Article

*Spring is dangerous, like love. And love survives the lovers.*

Himali Singh Soin, together with curator Kostas Stasinopoulos, asked friends to share messages, traces and transmissions of love.

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Into the Fluid Heart of Wallmapu Territory

Into the Fluid Heart of Wallmapu Territory

"My work is very linked to the archive and the revision of history, whether it be to revise chronicles or colonial tales." - Sebastián Calfuqueo

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Playing Nature: Alenda Y. Chang on Gaming's Role in the Climate Crisis
Article

Playing Nature: Alenda Y. Chang on Gaming's Role in the Climate Crisis

Can video games offer insights into real world environmental systems and ecological thinking?

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On Practice: Cooking
Audio

On Practice: Cooking

How can cooking bring people together and provide nourishment and care?

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Reading List: On Practice
Article

Reading List: On Practice

A reading list compiled by Serpentine Education & Civic Curators on the occasion of a new podcast series: On Practice.

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Artists World Illustration
Article

Ecological World-Building: From Science Fiction to Virtual Reality

Alice Bucknell draws a line from the otherworldly, ecological imaginings of writers like Octavia Butler to the "digital gardening" practices of artists like Jak...

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Bloomberg Connects

Discover more from the Serpentine with our free Bloomberg Connects digital guide. Hear from artists, curators and special guests talking in-depth about Serpentine exhibitions.

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