Studio/Chapple

@samirlaghouatirashwan solo exhibition ‘May god leave us poor’ is open for its first weekend this Friday and Saturday. Thank you to everyone who came down to the opening last week!

@samirlaghouatirashwan solo exhibition ‘May god leave us poor’ opens this Friday 6-9pm! We are opening alongside our wonderful neighbours @xxijrahii_ and @plicnikspaceinitiative , so if you’re not in Venice come through for a triple threat Deptford session. We have a creek which is not too far from a canal… See you there! X 📷: Getting a proper Deptford market welcome with aunty’s chicken yassa 🇸🇳

SAVE THE DATE Very excited to announce ‘May god leave us poor’, the first solo exhibition in the UK by Samir Laghouati-Rashwan. Join us for the opening on Friday 8th May, 6-9pm! The exhibition concludes a year-long research period carried out in Houston during his residency at Villa Albertine. His research, ‘Slowness as a Resistance’ - which drives the exhibition - considers slowness as a potential form of resistance to hyper-productivity and capitalist dynamics through the slab car community and DJ Screw’s sound practice in Houston. At the centre of the exhibition is his film ‘Night on MLK BLVD’. Using footage from nighttime slab car shows in the streets of Houston, he created an experimental film whose editing draws on the methods DJ Screw used in his music. Surrounding the film is a series of images displayed inside audio cassette cases. The exhibition is a site for experimenting with slowness, a place for sharing and exchange; drifting and daydreaming. This exhibition is supported by Institut Français du Royaume-Uni, with additional support from Mécènes du Sud and Fondation des Artistes. See you there! X @samirlaghouatirashwan @ifru_london @mecenesdusud @fondationdesartistes

Many thanks to @silviabarrila and Marilena Pirrelli for featuring us on @ilsole_24ore ! Such an honor and surprise! Works at @megaartfair presented by @studio.chapple , without Louis' incredible support would have not been possible! Also, a huge thank you to the @megaartfair team, @marta_orsola_sironi , @mattiapozzoni and @mauro__matter for their support.

Installation views of our presentation of works by Dien Berziga at @megaartfair in Milan! The fair continues through design week until 25th April. Contact [email protected] for a preview. “Similar to the slippery temperament of human memory, the painting process does not necessarily have a definitive or singular inception or conclusion. Berziga’s earlier paintings at times revert to the status of canvases, acting as a sedimented ground on which new ideas form. Timelines warp. Recollections are collaged. Labour and toil are not concealed but confront us in a process akin to excavation, unfolding through layers built and stripped away. Years of this accumulated strata create a surface that closely resembles asphalt, upon which a child might draw with chalk. The artist’s persistent exploration of what painting is manifests in every aspect of his practice; methodologies and components of the European oil-on-canvas tradition undergo a form of ontological analysis”. Excerpt from an accompanying text by @olakowalewsk4 @berziga_dien_

It is the final weekend to visit ‘YARDSOUND’, a solo exhibition by Zinzi Minott. We are open Friday and Saturday 12-6pm! —————— ‘Fi-Dem’ is a continued exploration into Blackness and diaspora. It reveals Windrush community histories and Minott’s personal diasporic experience via fragmented audio and visual cues, highlighting the stories of enslaved peoples, the Windrush generation and their connections. The film begins with a sonic investigation by Minott, compiling a soundtrack and sampling Lovers Rock and bass-heavy Dub. This is merged with speeches and collected archival audio visuals from sources, Windrush generation arrival footage, field recordings and scenes from Notting Hill and Hackney carnival, political speeches from Dianne Abbott, David Lammy and Kier Starmer, and both the 1985 riots across England and the recent Southport race riots.This is combined with Minott’s own personal archive of family videos highlighting domestic life. These visuals are woven into digital stock images of nature, including bodies of water, reflecting the movement of people on Empire Windrush and in reference to the transatlantic slave trade. This audiovisual montage embodies the veiled experiences specific to Caribbean genealogies, the uncomfortable internalised frameworks which carry with it the remains of colonial logics which separate notions of Blackness (and how people identify with it) from any realised and profound recognition of value. This complexity, of having pride in one’s Blackness yet understanding how it is positioned within the conditions of social and political death, disrupts the experience of being lulled by a melodic rhythmic piece. @zinziminott

It is the penultimate weekend to visit Zinzi Minott’s solo exhibition ‘YARDSOUND’. ‘YARDSOUND’ centres around an installation that features three Dutch pots housing speakers. The pots hold cultural significance in the Caribbean and wider diaspora; a pillar of the home and an essential object in the kitchen - heritage and tradition in the domestic space. Their size and material also has a specific sonic capacity when used or hit, further explored through the soundscape they omit. —————— ‘YARDSOUND’ 2025 Three aluminium pots with speakers Dimensions variable @zinziminott 📷: @studio_adamson

Very excited to be heading to Milan next week for our participation in MEGA Art Fair, showing a solo presentation of works by Dien Berziga! 15th - 25th April Profumo, Via Ambrogio Binda 29 20143 Milano Dien Berziga (b. 2001, Beijing) is a Chinese-Italian artist based in London. Blending traditional forms with contemporary techniques, Dien’s work bridges the past and present, crafting a dialogue between the handcrafted and the digital. Dien’s work explores individuality, and the intimate stories found within urban landscapes. By transforming everyday encounters into intimate, cherished objects, Dien’s work resonates with the deeply personal yet universal rhythm of urban life. Email [email protected] to request a preview. ‘Quiet People’ 2026 Oil on canvas 200 x 155 cm ‘Assembly’ 2025 Glaze and oil paint on ceramic tile in wooden frame 41.5 x 31.5 cm @berziga_dien_ @megaartfair

Huge congratulations to Ivna Esajas for the opening of her solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum ‘Wayward Lines: Consent to not be a single being’. It was amazing to see a couple of the works from our solo exhibition with Ivna last October shown in a new light! Curated by Amal Alhaag, the exhibition is a result of Ivna winning the ABN AMRO Art Award 2025. On view until 7th June 2026. @by.ivna @stedelijkmuseum @amalistique @abnamronl 📷: Gert Jan van Rooij

Zinzi Minott’s solo exhibition ‘YARDSOUND’ continues this weekend. “‘Family Trade’ continues Minott’s relationship with personal archival material, and depicts the only photograph of the maternal side of her family. At first glance, the work presents a normal image of a family, with a perfect composition. Yet the image acts as a starting point to explore inherited trauma within legacies of Atlantic slave trade, and the dynamics this causes in Black families of this ancestral lineage. Layered on the faces are ‘water triangles’ - a recurring motif in Minott’s practice. They act as a visual representation of the ‘triangular trade’, referencing the cartography of movement of enslaved peoples between Africa, the Caribbean and Americas, and Europe - with the imagery of water further emphasising the enforced displacement across the Atlantic. The act of directly imposing the image over the family’s faces is chilling, and a disturbing reminder of how this legacy continues to destroy notions of identity and humanity”. ‘Family Trade’ 2025 Framed digital print on archival paper 80 x 118 cm Edition of 2, +1 AP @zinziminott

Zinzi Minott’s solo exhibition ‘YARDSOUND’ continues this weekend at the gallery. Thank you to all who came through for the opening and afters last week! Open Fridays and Saturdays 12-6pm. Really one that must be experienced irl. @zinziminott 📷: @studio_adamson

Very excited to announce our first London show of the year, ‘YARDSOUND’, a solo exhibition by Zinzi Minott. Join us for the opening on Friday 13th March 6-9pm, followed by afters upstairs at Buster Mantis! ‘YARDSOUND’ centres around an installation that features three Dutch pots housing speakers. The pots hold cultural significance in the Caribbean and wider diaspora; a pillar of the home and an essential object in the kitchen - heritage and tradition in the domestic space. Their size and material also has a specific sonic capacity when used or hit, further explored through the soundscape they omit. The installation will be shown in conversation with ‘Fi Dem VIII: Securing Britain’s Future’, a durational moving image project that draws on the artist’s archive of personal videos and collected footage found on the internet as a continued investigation into Blackness and Diaspora. Shown throughout the film are videos taken at Hackney Carnival in 2017, Minott’s family dancing, Keir Starmer’s announcement on “taking back control of our borders” and filming of last year’s Southport race riots, amongst others. @zinziminott