Studio 01: Points of Return

Somerset House Studios exhibition series presents the work of three visual artists, enorê, Leila Dear and Ufuoma Essi, developed as part of an 18-month residency. Points of Return displays a mix of themes around memory, interconnectedness, and alternative modes of existence by the three creatives. 

Brazilian multidisciplinary artist enorê’s all i can hold consists of a collection of 3D printed porcelain sculptures that draw from themes of ghosts, death and cycles; coming to life through clay. The artist intends to focus on and experiment with their recent research around modes of virtual care and embodiment through the medium of the Tamagotchi.

Leila Dear is a British-Iranian artist and educator, whose multidisciplinary practice looks at ways of engaging with the structures of the natural world. Often working with geometric techniques from the Islamic tradition and elemental phenomena, she explores commonalities between art and science. Leila's installation Livingry, presents a series of paintings and sculptures that combines construction diagrams for dome dwellings with traditional techniques such as gilding and foraged pigments.

Ufuoma Essi is a London based video artist and filmmaker. Her work revolves around Black feminist philosopy and the configuration of displaced histories. Essi presents a new moving image work, Half Memory, a scanned Super8 film in colour exploring the relationship between materiality, land, isolation and displacement.. Using Toni Morrison’s The Site of Memory as a starting point, Half Memory is a languid mediation on the histories we live amongst.

The Jerwood Somerset House Studios Residencies, supported by Jerwood, offer artists studio space, a bursary, project budget and curatorial support to develop a new work.

Points of Return is open at Somerset House Studios until 7th July.