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A group of five women or girls, wearing black, singing in a purple-lit space. Most of them are wearing accessories that recall traditional African necklaces or headbands and sashes in colourful print.

Speaking to Support Structures: Nawi Collective

Support Structures fellows Nawi Collective consider how they foster care and connection through voicing, listening, and responding to one another's needs.

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A group of about ten people wearing winter clothing, in front of a colourful mural that says 'stop gentrification' and shows important events in community history through active groups of figures.

Speaking to Support Structures: Skin Deep

Members of Skin Deep – a cultural collective that makes space for creatives of colour to work towards racial justice – offer insight into how they develop shared practices.

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A group of people stand inside a public building holding the edges of a colourful silk parachute

Speaking to Support Structures: Jacob V Joyce

Artist, researcher and educator Jacob V Joyce considers the importance of working together towards liberatory new realities.

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Three people are experimenting with a golden light and a camera in a dark room

Speaking to Support Structures: Other Cinemas

Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah introduce their practice through Other Cinemas, a project that focuses on the transformational power of film.

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A group of people are holding a golden parachute above their heads and smiling

Speaking to Support Structures: FerArts

FerArts, a collective of socially-engaged artists, share their approach to amplifying marginalised voices across the creative industries and society.

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A group of people in winter clothing smiling in front of a door with marble pillars.

Speaking to Support Structures: Beverley Bennett

Artist, filmmaker and Support Structures fellow Beverley Bennett speaks about founding and caring for the different forms of relationships that are core to her work.

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A group of young children are playing on colourful construction-style materials with their parents watching

Speaking to Support Structures: RESOLVE Collective

Members of interdisciplinary design collective RESOLVE consider how they work to realise just and equitable visions of change.

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A group of smiling people sitting under a parachute

Speaking to Support Structures: Barby Asante

Support Structures for Support Structures Fellow Barby Asante reflects on how acceptance and reciprocity can form foundations for creative support.

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people sitting around a bright green carpet laid out in the grand galleries of a classical art gallery, sharing drinks

Speaking to Support Structures: Abbas Zahedi

Artist and Support Structures for Support Structures fellow Abbas Zahedi offers insight into the centrality of invitation and dialogue to his practice.

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Discover over 50 years of Serpentine

From the architectural Pavilion and digital commissions to the ideas Marathons and research-led initiatives, explore our past projects and exhibitions.

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