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2025 marks 15 years of Duchamp & Sons, and with it a generation of collaboration between young people at Whitechapel Gallery. To mark the anniversary, Duchamp & Sons embarked on a project looking back at the Duchamp & Sons archive, exploring connections to be found within our collective histories and shared futures.
Through a five month long collaboration with artist Holly Graham, the collective experimented with artistic approaches to archival materials to develop Moving Grounds: 15 Years of Duchamp & Sons, an original exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery (5 Feb – May 2025).
The exhibition is a celebration of Duchamp & Sons’ far-reaching and ever-evolving artistic collaborations, past and present. Playful re-imaginings of archival materials combine with new audio experiments and an invitation to participate – offering a space for everyone to gather, reflect and collaborate on a manifesto for the future.
The collective will also devise and stage a celebratory event in April 2025.
As well as the exhibition, comes the publication of Collective Acts: Reflections of 15 Years of Duchamp & Sons, a research project looking back at the long term impact of the collective, and what can be learnt from collaborative programmes like it.
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Read the Duchamp & Sons manifesto here
Holly Graham is a London based artist whose work looks at ways in which memory and narrative shape collective histories; and in turn inform shared futures. Holly holds a BFA from Oxford University and an MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art.
Current projects include commissions with UP Projects & Barnet Council (2024); TACO! (2021-24); and Manchester Art Gallery (2024). Recent solo projects include commissions with: Locales, Rome (2023); Deptford X (2023), London; Skelf, Online (2022); Robert Young Antiques, London (2021). Holly is an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London; and is Co-Founder of Cypher BILLBOARD, London. She was awarded a Sainsbury Scholarship at the British School in Rome for 2023.
Curated in collaboration with Holly Graham, Moving Grounds explores the collective’s archive, whilst reflecting on ideas of a common history and shared future.
A research project by Amelia Oakley (Curator: Youth Programmes), reflecting on the impact of Duchamp & Sons on members, and the learnings for the future
