Join us on 20 November at 6:00 PM to hear directly from sculptor Hermione Allsopp, who will lead an artist tour and discuss her practice, including new works created especially for this exhibition.
Allsopp’s artistic approach is rooted in critical reflection. Positioning herself against the universal narrative of boundless optimism and productivity, she consciously steps outside the cultural sphere that produces economically driven aesthetics. Working with found, non-artistic materials, she rejects traditional notions of beauty, instead questioning the role of the art object in culture and society. Her sculptures reinterpret everyday human experiences, transforming familiar domestic objects—once symbols of comfort and identity—into poignant reflections of memory and transformation.
In Allsopp’s work, these objects become vessels of emotional and temporal layering. Through them, she examines the fragility of the present and the stratification of reality, turning remnants of personal histories into artistic expressions of renewal—acts of creation born from the transition between life and death. As an artist, she simultaneously assumes the roles of both creator and custodian.
Following the tour, guests are invited to an exclusive video art screening in the screening room of, featuring works by Katerina Sadovsky and Lilia Li-Mi-Yan. This artist duo envisions a biologically advanced civilisation where life and death form two ends of the same continuum. Their work critically examines the present through the lens of post-human aesthetics, capturing the profound sociocultural shifts that have redefined the human body—our enduring “armour” of the soul.
Exploring the body’s liberation, fetishisation, and quest for immortality, Sadovsky and Li-Mi-Yan highlight how contemporary transformations of the body are conditioned by survival in a technologically mediated world. Their works address urgent questions of our time: ecological precarity, cultural adaptation, anxious anticipation of the future, and the potential collapse of existing human systems of meaning.
