Exhibition
Valentin Noujaïm & Space Afrika: The Dark Wood
6 Jun-14 Jun 2026
ICA
London SW1Y 5AH
Overview
Upper Gallery, 12 – 8pm
Please allow 45–60 minutes to experience the exhibition in its entirety. Ticket slots are hourly from 12–7pm, with the exhibition closing at 8pm. Ticket holders are welcome to stay for shorter or longer visits within opening hours.
The Dark Wood is a new film and sound installation by Space Afrika & Valentin Noujaïm, featuring the film Opera Omnia (2025). Across film, dialogue and sound, the exhibition approaches urban space as a site of memory, recurrence and disappearance.
Shot on 35mm, Opera Omnia follows a night-time passage through Manchester. Drawing on Dante’s Inferno as a loose point of departure, the film moves through themes of descent, return and encounter. Dante’s text continues through a new dialogue-based work and a sound installation composed by Space Afrika for the exhibition.
Together, the works hold image, voice and sound in close relation, moving through repetition, interruption and drift. The city appears not simply as setting, but as a place in which traces, histories and voices continue to accumulate.
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