'Stone Portals' - Gameplay with Leo Robinson

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A test-play session for a new card game exploring diasporic notions of ancestry and belonging.

13 Ross St

Market Gallery is pleased to present a sharing of Stone Portals, two events unpacking artist Leo Robinson’s current research. Engaging with stone carvings from across three continents, Stone Portals explores questions of ancestry, ritual and belonging, hoping to provide often absent archetypal narratives to those searching for a sense of diasporic understanding. While you are welcome to attend both events, please note that they are ticketed separately. THIS PAGE IS FOR EVENT 1 OF 2. // An intimate test-play session for a new card game Leo has been developing since 2023. This single-player quest game - also playable collaboratively - guides players on a journey through the feeling of longing for a lost home. The game appropriates images from postal stamps in St. Vincent and the Grenadines depicting Carnival from the 1970s to the present day. These images, often originally filtered through a fetishistic or idealistic lens, are recontextualised to construct new narratives and meanings in conversation with archetypes from Jungian psychoanalysis and Tarot, Afro-Futurist and pop-cultural references, and the work of black theorists such as Édouard Glissant, Frantz Fanon and Henry Louis Gates Jr. This event is open to people with connections to histories of migration or who identify as part of a diaspora. It will take place in our space at 13 Ross Street and is free but ticketed. The space is wheelchair accessible and equipped with gender neutral wheelchair accessible toilets. Travel and childcare bursaries are available, get in touch at market@marketgallery.org to request them. // Leo Robinson is an artist living and working between London and Glasgow. With the creation of maps, diagrams, games, ritual objects and music, Leo forms speculative networks of symbol, knowledge and ritual. His work often suggests a future or parallel civilization in which these belief systems have been reconstructed from fragments, through acts of hybridity and reappropriation, as a form of healing from the legacies of colonial displacement and erasure.In 2023, Leo completed a research and production residency at G.A.S. founded by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA, supported by Tiwani Contemporary. His work has been exhibited in major institutions such as London Mithraeum, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff and The Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow. ⁠Leo was recently announced as the winner of the Arts Foundation Futures Award in Visual Art for 2025.

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