Artist Paul Noble joins us for an intimate reading and listening event marking the closing weekend of 'Daydreamers', Majd Abdel Hamid’s first London solo exhibition. Noble will present 'dot to dot' (2006), his three-part sound poem originally voiced by Laetitia Sadier (Stereolab), in a focused listening session, introduced by a short reflection on his encounter with Hamid in Ramallah in 2007.
The event doubles as the finissage of 'Daydreamers', an opportunity to encounter the exhibition one final time, and to receive a part of it. Visitors will be invited to take home one of over 600 small sculptural pieces from 'Daydreamers (Fortune Tellers)' floor work, offered as a quiet act of giving, allowing them to disperse and live on through new afterlives.
First presented at Gagosian, New York (2007) and later at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2014), 'dot to dot' resonates anew within the context of Hamid’s exhibition, where dysfunctional binary systems and motifs of patterned dots and the sea recur across his body of work, notably in ongoing series such as 'Ode to the Sea' (2024–) and 'Daydreamers (Code)' (2024–).
Noble and Hamid first met in Ramallah in 2007 at the International Academy of Art in Palestine, Hamid as a student, Noble as a tutor. After many years without direct communication, they reconnected for the opening of 'Daydreamers', tracing a poetic thread between geographies and evolving practices.
The event will take place in Cell’s upstairs gallery space and will open with a short reading by Noble, followed by the 6-minute, 30-second sound piece.
Curator: Adomas Narkevičius
Paul Noble was born in Northumberland in 1963. His work spans drawing, sculpture and sound, often engaging speculative language systems and architectural fictions. Exhibitions include Drawing Now: Eight Propositions at MoMA, New York; The British Art Show (2000); Paul Noble: Nobson at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; and solo presentations at Gagosian, La Chaux-de-Fonds and Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle. He was shortlisted for the Turner Prize in 2012 and lives and works in London.
Image: Paul Noble, Sea V, The Carnival Between, 2006, drawing. Courtesy of the artist.
If you require assistance to access the building or have any additional questions, please contact Annabelle Mödlinger, Production Assistant: annabelle[at]cellprojects[dot]org.
With generous support from Fluxus Art Projects, Cockayne Foundation and The Elephant Trust.
