Meet the Artists
Sarah Duffy (b.1986) lives and works in London. Duffy graduated in 2013 with an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London; after which she became the inaugural recipient of The Acme Goldsmiths MFA Studio Award. Projects and exhibitions include: Solo Performance Om3am x Sarah Duffy hosted by Hans-Ulrich Obrist; Solo performance Enjoy The Silence at The Camden Arts Centre, London; The Ol' Switcheroo at Jupiter Woods, London; The Frequency of Magic at out_sight Gallery, Seoul; and Nothing is, Everything Just Has Been Or Will Be at The Korean Cultural Centre, London and Berlin. In 2020, Duffy joined the 5 year Live/work Programme at the Acme Fire Station in London, UK. Other international and national residency programmes include: The Seoul Museum of Art in 2018; A Triangle Network/ Gasworks International Fellowship at Lugar a Dudas in Cali, Colombia in 2019; Artlink, Fort Dunree in Donegal, Ireland in 2021; and a fellowship at Schloss Wiepersdorf in Brandenburg, Germany in 2022. In 2023, Duffy was AIR at ICST at Zurich University of the Arts where she continued her ongoing work in spatial sound. In November 2023, Duffy returned to Zurich for the first public iteration of her ongoing immersive sound project ' The Harvard Sentences', which was performed for an audience on a 28-speaker array in Concert Hall 1at ZHdk.
OPERATOR, 2024
Performance art
“DIAL THE RED PHONE. DIAL THE BLUE PHONE. DIAL THE BLACK PHONE.”
Who moves up the social ladder? 2024
Vinyl Print
“The image of a ladder aligns to the visitor's point of view as soon as they enter the gallery space. They are then faced with the impossibility of this tool that gets distorted as they move around the space. This distortion is intended as an invitation to experience the space freely by letting go of the initial alignment towards a goal and expectation.”
Xinghao (Karl) Liang (b. 1999 in Beihai, China) lives and works in London. One of the experimental collective Successful Artists, he studied at the China Academy of Art (2021) and Chelsea College of Art in London (2023). Since 2022, his practice explores different media, from installation to performance, painting to graphic design, music to video. The artist is interested in the possibilities of new digital technologies, post-humanism, love, empathy and evolutionary concepts, wanting to stand in the shoes of ‘old humanity’ and pick up on the ‘useless emotions’ that remain in times of war, disease and the seemingly unstoppable tide of big data.
Proactive Loops, 2024
Laser lights, lighting console, audio
"’Proactive loops’ is a live ‘happening’ work, the duration of which coincides with the duration of the exhibition, but which can hardly be defined as an ‘art work’. To be precise, it is a system that allows the work and the audience to dance happily together.”
OPERATOR, 2024
Performance art
“DIAL THE RED PHONE. DIAL THE BLUE PHONE. DIAL THE BLACK PHONE.”
Faissal El-Malak (b. 1988) is a Palestinian multidisciplinary artist based in London. Interested in themes of memory and the metaphysical he sources images from the subconscious through his work as a healer. He completed the MFA in fine art from Goldsmiths University of London in 2023 with the support of the Tashkeel Scholarship Fund where he was awarded the Warden’s Prize for his degree show. Previously, El-Malak’s work in fashion was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London in 2019 making him the first Palestinian fashion designer to integrate their permanent collection.
Who moves up the social ladder? 2024
Vinyl Print
“The image of a ladder aligns to the visitor's point of view as soon as they enter the gallery space. They are then faced with the impossibility of this tool that gets distorted as they move around the space. This distortion is intended as an invitation to experience the space freely by letting go of the initial alignment towards a goal and expectation.”
Xinghao (Karl) Liang (b. 1999 in Beihai, China) lives and works in London. One of the experimental collective Successful Artists, he studied at the China Academy of Art (2021) and Chelsea College of Art in London (2023). Since 2022, his practice explores different media, from installation to performance, painting to graphic design, music to video. The artist is interested in the possibilities of new digital technologies, post-humanism, love, empathy and evolutionary concepts, wanting to stand in the shoes of ‘old humanity’ and pick up on the ‘useless emotions’ that remain in times of war, disease and the seemingly unstoppable tide of big data.
Proactive Loops, 2024
Laser lights, lighting console, audio
"’Proactive loops’ is a live ‘happening’ work, the duration of which coincides with the duration of the exhibition, but which can hardly be defined as an ‘art work’. To be precise, it is a system that allows the work and the audience to dance happily together.”