Borough Road Gallery Late Opening 6-8pm

Readings at 7pm

Part of a programme of free public talks and events accompanying Borough Road Gallery’s first Artist Residency: Three Floors Down: In the Studio, with artist Susan Sluglett (3 December 2014 – 28 February 2015).

For this event, Emily Beber and Daphne de Sonneville have been invited to create new art writing in response to a display of drawings and paintings from A David Bomberg Legacy – The Sarah Rose Collection, selected for Three Floors Down by Susan Sluglett and Borough Road Gallery. Beber and de Sonneville will become narrators of the Gallery space, evoking figures, gestures, objects and sensations, and constructing rhythms and connections from the way the works are hung. Sluglett's studio will be open throughout the evening.

Emily Beber is a writer and critic, she is the Commissioning Editor of Corpora Limbo (Eros Press, 2015), a collaborative book considering the writer’s body, founder of online archive These Lists, and recently contributed to the exhibition Beside at Five Years Gallery, with a text that explored the shifting ground between an image and its materiality. She is currently working on the research paper Shrinking Studies – A Cultural History, which will be presented at London Metropolitan University in January 2015. Daphne de Sonneville is an artist and writer who has previously presented work at Spike Island and Jupiter Woods, and as part of ‘Optics of Writing’ at X Marks the Bökship, and ‘Language is the Creek on a Stair’ at Whitechapel Gallery, and has had her texts published in HOAX and PaperWork Magazine.

Alongside a programme of exhibitions and talks, Borough Road Gallery commissions new texts, research, and responses from contemporary writers, artists, and other thinkers inspired by A David Bomberg Legacy – The Sarah Rose Collection. For more information about the Borough Road Gallery programme, please visit the website. 

This event is part of South London Art Map’s ‘SLAM Fridays’. SLAM Fridays is a monthly late-night opening of galleries in south London, on the last Friday of the month. For more information, and to see which other galleries nearby will be opening late, please visit the SLAM website.