Allan Weber: My Order

14 Jun-14 Sep 2025

Overview

This summer, De La Warr Pavilion presents the first institutional solo exhibition by Rio de Janeiro-based, multi-disciplinary artist Allan Weber. Working across a range of mediums, including assemblage, sculpture, installation, and photography, Weber’s practice is deeply rooted in the realities of his environment. His work embraces the ambiguity, chaos, and violence of urban life, treating the streets as connective tissue, and transforming mundane objects through sharp poetics and social commentary. By bringing materials loaded with history into the exhibition space, Weber offers a window into the realities he experiences and imagines.

My Order brings together Weber’s interests in material and visual representations of his life and community in Cinco Bocas, a favela in northern Rio de Janeiro, alongside newly commissioned works created in response to his time spent in the UK through a residency facilitated by Nottingham Contemporary and DLWP in October 2024. The exhibition’s title has multiple reference points, nodding to Weber’s time working as a food delivery rider taking customers’ ‘orders’, his artistic and social forms of living and working from a favela with its own laws, and his upbringing under Neo-Pentecostal influence and the Bible’s teachings.

Weber’s practice reflects the social dynamics of his community, employing motifs and codes that shape his world. In 2020, he founded Galeria 5 Bocas, a barbershop- turned-art gallery, and a homonymous football club, to support local artists and inspire youth through art and football.

At De La Warr Pavilion, Weber will present a site-specific sculptural and photographic installation in the Ground floor gallery that furthers his social practice as an artist by drawing attention to global economies of invisible labour and circulation of goods. Responding to the gallery’s architectural connection to outdoor space through its wall of windows looking out to the seafront, Weber’s works will be installed in conversation with the movements and activities of passers-by throughout the summer months.

Allan Weber: My Order is a partnership between De La Warr Pavilion and Nottingham Contemporary. The exhibition is supported by Galatea, São Paulo and Salvador.