NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER

Inas Halabi, We No Longer Prefer Mountains, 2022. Commissioned as part of The Consortium Commissions (2020-22), a project initiated by Mophradat. Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Cesare De Giglio

CURRENT EXHIBITION:
Inas Halabi: We No Longer Prefer Mountains

On until 17 December
We are open Wednesday to Saturday, 12-6pm
Free entry

The exhibition is a major new single-screen film installation in which Halabi reflects upon the particular political and social condition of the Druze community living in occupied Palestine, taking individual and personal stories as a point of departure.

Weaving together intimate engagements with members of the community in shared domestic spaces and outdoor environments, the film explores how the inner politics of the Palestinian Druze have been reshaped as a result of the establishment of Israel in 1948; whilst opening up possibilities for imagining alternative futures.

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UPCOMING EVENT: Art and Climate Change

Art and Climate Change, 2022

Book launch
Tuesday 8 November 2022, 6.30-8.30pm
At The Showroom
An evening with Maja and Reuben Fowkes and artists
Tuur van Balen, Sonia Levy and Himali Singh Soin

Copies of the publication will be available for purchase on the night

Free, book here

Join us for the launch of Art and Climate Change with authors Maja and Reuben Fowkes and artists Tuur van Balen, Sonia Levy and Himali Singh Soin. Published by Thames & Hudson as part of the World of Art series, Art and Climate Change is dedicated to artistic engagements with intensifying ecological breakdown. This evening will be full of discursive, sonic, visual and sensory interventions, an occasion to gather together around the uncertainties and urgencies of the age of climate chaos.

Artist Katarzyna Depta-Garapich has conceived an edible artwork, Planetary Ferment, for this special launch night. Made in collaboration with current BA Sculpture students at the Slade, Christine Chua, Scarlett Pochet and Luca Vincentelli

NEWS: The Showroom remains an Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation until 2026

Team photo: Lily Hall, Curator, Gabriela Salgado, Director, Seema Manchanda, Managing Director, Oana Damir, Communications and Programme Coordinator (from left to right). Photo: Emma Blau

For nearly forty years, The Showroom has provided an engaging programme that challenges what art can be and do. We have been an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation since 1996, and we are delighted to continue as an NPO. Looking forward to the future, we remain committed to ambitious, embedded and collaborative approaches to cultural production with artists, neighbours, partners and the wider arts ecology in our locality of Church Street and beyond. Our programme in 2022-23 focuses on intersectional approaches to community, decolonisation and ecology.

In a time of so much uncertainty, the award is a mandate to keep doing what we do. In the simplest terms, it’s about an international perspective of engaged contemporary practices that otherwise might not have the opportunity to be seen, as well as a deep commitment to its location and the communities which surround it.