An Ode to Orlando Curated by Marcelle Joseph

PI Artworks, 55 Eastcastle Street, London
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This event ended on Saturday 26th of February 2022
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Free
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Pi Artworks
Eastcastle Street, W1W 8EG
Nearest Tube/Rail Stations
Oxford Circus 0.18 miles

Pi Artworks proudly presents An Ode to Orlando, an expansive group exhibition curated by Marcelle Joseph, featuring a cross-generational and international group of artists alongside the inaugural collection of furniture designs by Ada Interiors. The exhibition reimagines the gallery space as the private home of a fictional art collector set in London in the present day. Based on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, this particular aesthete – a passionate, brilliant and eccentric character who lives and breathes art - navigates fluidly through time and gender, au courant with the latest cultural trends and equally in tune with the past. Creating a dialogue between contemporary art and artisanal furniture, the exhibition is divided into two areas: a drawing room and a study, representing the twin selves of Orlando as both a man and a woman. Orlando’s reimagined London residence will be a place of sanctuary and escape, a site that is beyond time as Woolf’s Orlando lives for more than 300 years into modern times without ageing perceptibly. Here, we are forever young.

Artists include Jonathan Baldock, Gabriele Beveridge, Charlie Billingham, Victoria Cantons, Eileen Cooper, Sarah Dwyer, Pam Evelyn, Maeve Gilmore, Natalia Gonzalez-Martin, Mustafa Hulusi, Richard Malone, Alexi Marshall, Lindsey Mendick, Francesca Mollett, Annie Morris, Erin O'Keefe, Sola Olulode, Laurence Owen, Selma Parlour, Anousha Payne, Anna Perach, Glen Pudvine, Antonia Showering, Holly Stevenson, Zoe Williams, and Lian Zhang.

Ada Interiors, founded during the pandemic by my dear Turkish friends Turgay and Deniz Huysal, takes its name from the Turkish work for island (ada), reimagining the home as a place of escape and comfort where personal taste holds sway, expressed through the furniture and objects we choose to decorate our lives with. Ada Interiors aims to present designs and ideas with a sense of simplicity and a clean look. Though contemporary in look and feel, the inspirations behind the pieces come from a variety of periods and movements including late Georgian furniture, Vienna Secession, Bauhaus and Mid-century Modern.

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