Cell Project Space

We are excited to announce that Iranian artist Armineh Negahdari is currently working towards her first UK solo exhibition, 'The Living River', opening at Cell Project Space on 3rd June. Poetry persists as a condition within Nagadari’s practice from where the artist takes the title for her exhibition. In Shams Langeroodi's poem 'Lotus of the Swamp' the living river does not represent, but enact: a rise and recession, a pulse, a continuous deferral that folds inevitability into movement. Flowing between memory, immersion, and form, the exhibition will gather a new body of work rooted in drawing as both process and ritual. Armineh Negahdari, (b.Tehran) lives and works in Bordeaux. The artist recently presented their solo exhibition 'What Colour Is Your Sky Today?' at OPEN SPACE # 18 Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris in April 2026, presented in partnership with S.M.A.K. in Ghent, which will feature a solo exhibition by the artist in 2027. Recent solo exhibitions in 2025 include Art Basel Statements, Basel, Switzerland, and ‘Un oiseau passe. Je le suis (with Aurélien Froment)’, Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR. Recent group exhibitions in 2026 include ‘Langues empruntées’, Centre International d’Art et du Paysage Île de Vassivière, FR, and ‘Selection of drawings from the collection of Antoine de Galbert’, Église Sainte-Anne, Arles, FR. Past exhibitions include ‘Sara Bichao, Diver’s flight’ Galerie Filomera Soares, Lisbon,PT; ‘Dislocations’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR; ‘What happens when we cry?, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, FR, (both 2024). Her works are held in public collections; Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, SMAK, Ghent, BE, and MAMC+ Saint-Etienne, FR. All welcome! For further information and press please contact Annnabelle Mödlinger: [email protected] We are thankful for the very generous support from Fluxus Art Projects and Elephant Trust. Link in bio Image text: from 'Lotus of the Swamp' by Shams Langeroodi

It’s the last chance to see LA Timpa’s solo show ‘Come Back’ this weekend! Don’t miss it. We are open until Sunday 3 May, 12-6pm. Pictured: ‘Animations’, 2022-2023 Cassette tape recording and single channel video Image by Damian Griffiths Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts @l.a.timpa

Originally published by 27 Seiten for ‘I got a new joint: what I shouldn’t do with money’ at Kunsthalle Winterthur, LA Timpa’s novella ‘A Destiny in Jeopardy’ (2025) curated by @gerrytedder is now available to purchase. Copies are priced at £15 and can be acquired in person at the gallery during the final week of ‘Come Back’, LA Timpa’s solo exhibition at Cell Project Space, or ordered online via PayPal through our shop (link in bio / DM for details). We are open from Thursday until Sunday, 12-6pm @l.a.timpa @kunsthallewinterthur Images by @vadimovna_studio

Final days to catch LA Timpa’s ‘Come Back’! We are open all weekend, 12-6pm. The exhibition runs until Sunday 3rd May. Through repair, adaptation, and processes of sequencing, erasure, and production, Timpa’s work carries traces of improvisation, reflecting tensions between fragility and resilience. Recording, listening, and making operate as both emotional strategies and conceptual gestures, to navigate the porous terrain between internal worlds and the social and political structures that surround them. Drawing on personal narratives shaped by precarity, the work extends to broader reflections on exile and return. Slide 1: ‘Mist’, 2026 Mixed media Variable dimensions Slide 2: ‘Animations’, 2022-2023 Casette tape recording and single channel video Slide 3&4: ‘Dorm’, 2026 Mixed media 35 x 39 cm Images by Damian Griffiths Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts @l.a.timpa

It was a pleasure to welcome back members of the Art Writing Group (formerly Goldsmiths Art Writing Group) to the gallery last Monday for their workshop, ‘A Finely Tuned Battery of Senses’, facilitated by co-founders of the group Oli Mardon and Frank Wates. Participants were invited to engage with LA Timpa’s current exhibition ‘Come Back’, by documenting their journeys to the gallery with a focus on sensory detail and collating small booklets from found images they had brought with them, drawing inspiration from Timpa’s 2025 novella ‘A Destiny in Jeopardy’. The workshop will continue to develop into the group’s first publication, documenting writing and image experimentation – launch date to be announced in May. @olmardon @frank__wates @eeshcam @enoch2swag @sofia.serpa.arango @ebonyosun @nicoleedi_ @circe.m.r @emratamann @ayshaleach @ellsoni_ @sam953_ @mayaluciayayaya __pip__ @l.a.timpa Images by @vadimovna_studio

If you missed last week's screening !!!! From 11am today: LA Timpa presents Alex Harsley’s Photodirect—streaming LIVE on our homepage. A kaleidoscopic series of film and video shorts, Photodirect moves between diaristic fragments, downtown NYC street scenes, and intimate portraits of Black artistic communities across decades. Shot on 35mm and early video, and drawn from a 60-year archive, Harsley’s work layers collage, sound, and lo-fi experimentation into a richly psychedelic viewing experience. Link in our bio: 🎧 Headphones recommended. @l.a.timpa @4thstreetphoto

Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday evening for LA Timpa’s special presentation of moving-image shorts from the acclaimed YouTube series Photodirect by artist Alex Harsley (b. 1932, USA). Presented and streamed across multiple screens within Timpa's exhibition the event also featured the premiere of 'Bond', for which Harsley created a new video to accompany the track, set to appear on Timpa’s forthcoming album. Led by curator and programmer Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura (@ttb_spiral ), in conversation with LA Timpa, the event offered a thoughtful expansion on the vast archive of footage that Alex Harsley has built over decades. Thank you, Tabitha, for so carefully recognising Harsley’s deep commitment to his community, his generosity of spirit, enduring curiosity, dedication to enquiry, experimentation, and chance. Through her framing, she illuminated how his work not only documents the rich network of artists, writers, and scholars in downtown New York, but also attends to immediate surroundings: the everyday, the textures of the city, and the analogue processes that resonate so strongly with LA Timpa’s practice. To listen to Tabitha & Timpa in conversation, visit the recording on our website - link in our bio @4thstreetphoto @l.a.timpa @ttb_spiral Photography: @vadimovna_studio

We are excited to announce that curator and programmer Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura will join us for a special presentation of selected moving image shorts from 'Photodirect’, the acclaimed YouTube series by artist Alex Harsley (b. 1932, USA) on Wednesday 15th April at 7pm. Please RSVP via the link in our bio. Selected by LA Timpa, the 'Photodirect' series is a compelling collection of film and video shorts, ranging from diaristic fragments and collage-like edits to grainy glimpses of downtown New York and its Black communities across decades. Using a classic 35mm SLR camera, and video camcorder, Harsley seamlessly moves between everyday life, offering a textured, often unfiltered portrait of people and environments that might otherwise go undocumented. The event features the more fragmented and experimental body of work, that culminated into a feature length film, 'First Light' 2000-2020, which Harsley describes as depictions of the cosmos, where moving image gradually disintegrates into an expressionistic field of matter. This ambitious project emerged over two decades of shooting, layering, dissolving, and collaging images. Complex montages of flickering visuals and lo-fi early computer graphics are paired with Harsley’s musical scores. Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura is a curator and programmer from London, specialising in independent music and contemporary culture. She led the celebrated NTS Radio for twelve years, most recently as Director of Music & Programming. She is the founder of the interdisciplinary platform Sabi Arts, presenting projects at institutions including TATE Modern, Haus Der Kunst, ICA London, Somerset House and beyond. Alex Harsley is a pioneering New York based photographer, curator, and founder of the 4th Street Photo Gallery and The Minority Photographers non-profit since the early 1970's. His practice spans documentary and street photography, capturing everyday life in Harlem and the wider African diaspora. Alongside his artistic work, he has been a vital community figure, creating platforms for emerging artists and fostering dialogue around social justice, culture, and representation.

LA Timpa Come Back 12-6pm, Thurs-Sun Until May 3rd Images: 1. ‘Irregularity (sit up)', 2026 Mixed media 57 x 43 cm 2. ‘Animations', 2022-2023 Cassette tape recording and single channel video - Without shouting, 4:58 - Patience, 3:05 - It’s ok to burn it to the pot, 3:52 - Moving, 5:45 - Passing up, 3:43 - Gal’s, 3:53 Mist, 2026 Mixed media Variable dimensions 3. Detail - ‘Animations', 2022-2023 4. Detail - 'Irregularity (sit up)', 2026 Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts Photography: Damian Griffiths @ontarioartscouncil

LA Timpa Come Back Circle, 2019 4:47, single channel video LA Timpa resists clarity, relying instead on the rawness of the world he encounters, constantly reshaped by whatever lies ahead. His approach to constructing sound and narrative becomes a way of practicing presence. The exhibition opens with the moving-image work Circle (2019), a video capturing fragments of family life. Shot on the artist’s phone and woven into a deliberately patchwork fiction, it traces a world both intimate and elusive. Timpa works with what surrounds him, treating real-world sounds as raw material; walking, recording, and reshaping them into something new. In listening back, he deciphers what has just occurred and what has been made, describing 'Circle' as “a former American spy readjusting to life in society and reconnecting with his daughter.” Timpa’s practice drifts closer to painting than narrative. Sounds and images gather, overlap, and unfold, forming shapes that arrive quietly, finding a coherence in their own terms. Open Thursday- Sunday 12-6pm until - 3rd May Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts Photography: Damian Griffiths

LA Timpa 'Mouth Face Forehead' 2026 Mixed media 120 x 120 x 60cm Part of the artist's solo exhibition 'Come Back' Open 12-6pm, Thurs-Sun @l.a.timpa ~ Through repair, adaptation, and processes of erasure and production, Timpa’s work carries traces of improvisation, that reflect tensions between fragility and resilience. Drawing on personal narratives and shaped by precarity, the work extends to broader reflections on exile and return. ~ Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts Photography: Damian Griffiths

LA Timpa, 'Come Back' Open Thurs–Sun, 12-6pm 'Animations' (2022-2023), is a new work compiled of various audio shorts taken from the original 6 episodes released on Timpa's website in 2023 presented in the back space of the gallery (recontextualised). The shorts are sequenced and played in real time through a 1990s Dolby cassette player and speakers, tracked across two visual display devices: one a CRT monitor, the other digitally recorded via the backlit LCD display of a portable linear recorder. Sound ' Channel #2, Bone throw', 2026 from the linear recorder is simultaneously channeled into 'No Title' 2026, a sculpture and resonant architecture installed in the adjacent room. Image: Animations, 2022-2023 Cassette tape recording and single channel video - Without shouting, 4:58 - Patience, 3:05 - It’s ok to burn it to the pot, 3:52 - Moving, 5:45 - Passing up, 3:43 - Gal’s, 3:53 Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts Photography: Damian Griffiths