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What is this final Dance with the Ugly Duck? Deen What is this final Dance with the Ugly Duck? Deen is here to break down the joyful weekend Ugly duck has planned. Tickets in our bio! 📀📀📀📀
A Collective Archive is taking place this Thursday A Collective Archive is taking place this Thursday till Sunday. We hope to see you there🦆❤️
Shadi Al-Atallah is exhibiting as part of A Collec Shadi Al-Atallah is exhibiting as part of A Collective Archive this week!💐💐They are a London-based artist whose work combines drawing and painting to explore the human body in moments of transformation, connection and vulnerability. His pieces depict psycho-sexual conflict between two or more figures embroiled in intimate entanglements. Bodies are often fragmented or blurred, grappling with each other and the space around them. Al-Atallah’s recent work explores holes as sites of transformation. From black holes and the underworld to bodily orifices and wounds, he examines how voids may dissolve boundaries and shift identities. Like his earlier investigations of wrestling, Al-Atallah uses mythology and religion as lenses to explore masculinity, power and desire. His figures often inhabit liminal spaces - undefined domestic environments where the distinction between inside and outside has been transgressed. Navigating the physical and spiritual, Al-Atallah uses the body as a site for connection, resistance, and change.
SUNDAY 15th of June 🎙️Closing Performances Cl SUNDAY 15th of June 🎙️Closing Performances Closing performances by Chloé Filani, Puer Deorum and Joy Kincaid from 3-6 pm (As part of A Collective Archive Programme) Ugly Duck, 49 Tanner Street, London, SE1 3PL Tickets: link in bio
Luis M. S. Santos will be exhibiting at ‘A Colle Luis M. S. Santos will be exhibiting at ‘A Collective Archive’. He is a Mozambican sculptor who graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto in 2016. Since 2017, he has been teaching at the Faculty of Arts of the Higher Institute of Arts and Culture in Mozambique. He has participated in international exhibitions in Mozambique, South Africa, and Portugal, including “What the Body Has Already Forgotten” (Franco-Mozambican Cultural Centre, 2019) and the Paulo Cunha e Silva Award (Porto Municipal Gallery, 2023). He has been honoured with the Paulo Cunha e Silva Award (3rd edition), the Prince Claus Seed Award, and the Mozal Arts and Culture Award (all in 2023). Drawing is central to his creative process, allowing him to anticipate technical challenges, stage performances, and explore the relationship between the body and sculpture. His work addresses social and political injustices, using the African context as a starting point, while reflecting on the role of art in social transformation and questioning the intersections between humanity, nature, and technology.
Sophie Brain is a dancer and performance artist wh Sophie Brain is a dancer and performance artist whose work exists primarily in nightlife spaces. She is part of performance collective Sue Veneers and has performed at festivals including Glastonbury, Gala and Milkshake. She also has a regular slot in The Box Soho’s late night cabaret show. Taking inspiration from her dance training background and her experience as a drag performer in queer London, Sophie’s work is layered with a camp sensibility and ruptures with pleasure found in the dirty punk material body, which lies at the heart of her work. Sophie will present Meet me in the dressing room, their new performance on Saturday evening Avoid the folk...who see the blood but not the energy form’ Taking cues from Diane diPrima’s Revolutionary Letters, Sophie’s performance challenges the body’s extremes to explore world building action and possibilities in an era of powerlessness. Combining movement and character based performance, the figures Sophie creates unleash female ‘hysteria’ through dirty and despicable acts.