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Exhibition

Hard Evidences

14 Feb-31 Mar 2025
PV 13 Feb 2025, 6-9pm

198 Contemporary Arts & Learning
London SE24 0JT

Overview

Memory is elusive, yet it shapes our understanding of the present. Myths embed themselves in collective consciousness, forming the foundations of identities and histories. Hard Evidences is a multidisciplinary exhibition where memory, myth, and history intersect to illuminate the often-hidden forces that shape our contemporary realities. Through the works of Tiffany Wellington, Tamara Al-Mashouk, and Divine Southgate-Smith, this exhibition examines the delicate yet potent power of unveiling truths, confronting erasures, and imagining futures beyond the confines of the past.


Central to the exhibition is the collaborative performance, Lipsync Serenades for Soft Occasions, where composer Tze Yeung Ho, textile artist Kholod Hawash, and performance artist Josh Spear intertwine music, embroidery, and queer love narratives. Myth and modernity collide in a dazzling performance exploring the fragility and resilience of love.

Featured artists:

Tiffany Wellington
Born in 1996 in Kingston, Jamaica, is an artist living and working in London. Wellington’s work explores the relationship between the object and the narrative, folklore and reality, the ghost and the being. Their multimedia works consider storytelling through the interweaving of personal experience and cultural histories. Across photography, performance, sound and sculpture, the installations are approached by the artist as a collection of thoughts that become embodied through the space.

Tamara Al-Mashouk
A London-based Palestinian-Saudi artist and organiser, Tamara Al-Mashouk employs multi-channel video, performance, and architectural installation to examine the displacement of people on both intimate and global scales. Her work negotiates the relationship between home, memory, and collective histories, expanding the study of epigenetics beyond the body into place and matter. Her socially engaged practice addresses intersections of personal histories, global migratory narratives, and identity, rooted in anti-racist, de-colonial, and anti-imperialist frameworks.

Divine Southgate-Smith
Born in 1995 in Lomé, Togo, and currently based in London, Divine Southgate-Smith is a Togolese-British transdisciplinary artist. Her/Their practice spans photographic collage, sculpture, moving image, performance, writing, spoken word, and 3D animation. Her/Their work explores complex narratives within speculative spaces, questioning traditional equations between sight and understanding. She/They address themes of oppression, stereotyping, intersectionality, empowerment, and joy, often referencing and rethinking articulations of Black, queer, and female experiences.