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Serpentine South Gallery
Kensington Gardens,
London W2 3XA

Tuesday - Sunday (Closed from 24 Dec 2021 until 4 Jan 2022)
10am - 6pm

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West Carriage Drive,
London W2 2AR

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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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Serpentine Studios
Project Project

Serpentine Studios

Serpentine Studios x Coal Drops Yard Part 1, 29 November - January 2022, Monday-Sunday, 10am-10pm

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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HOLDING SPACE ACROSS CRIP TIME: Kyla Harris & Leah Clements
Film

HOLDING SPACE ACROSS CRIP TIME: Kyla Harris & Leah Clements

A conversation about the power of representation in relation to disability, making work accessible and the importance of disabled/crip community.

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View onto an urban sidewalk and grey old-fashioned storefront. The storefront’s windows are occluded with red fabric. On the window to the left, grey vinyl reads: “Nothing About Us Without Us.” Underneath in smaller letters reads: recess. There is a wheelchair ramp coming out of the storefront’s door, across the sidewalk, and ending at the lip to the street. It is covered in yellow caution tape.
Article

HOLDING SPACE ACROSS CRIP TIME: Leah Clements, Taraneh Fazeli and K MacBride

A conversation about architectures of care, expanding ideas of access adisabled ‘elders’.

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HOLDING SPACE ACROSS CRIP TIME: Rebekah Ubuntu
Article

HOLDING SPACE ACROSS CRIP TIME: Rebekah Ubuntu

Rebekah Ubuntu speaks on creating and maintaining personal boundaries, taking control of their own narrative, hope and reclaiming QTBIPOC histories.

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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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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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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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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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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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Digital Guide

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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