Duchamp & Sons Members and Mohammed Z. Rahman visit Zineb Sedira’s Dreams Have No Titles exhibition as part of one of their sessions. Photo: Kuba Ocean
Work in progress. Dioramas created by Duchamp & Sons members during sessions.
Brainstorming ideas during a Duchamp & Sons session.
Duchamp & Sons members explore different storytelling methods during sessions, using Mohammed
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About This Event
– This event takes place in the Creative Studio at Whitechapel Gallery. This space is located on Level 3 and can be accessed via our passenger lift or stairs.
– This event is suitable for all ages.
– We are unable to provide British Sign Language interpretation for this event
– We are unable to provide live closed captioning or CART for this event.
– This event is drop in and will last approximately 2 hours.
Transport
– To the best of our knowledge, there are no planned disruptions to local transport on the date of the event.
– Our nearest train station – Aldgate East Underground (1 min) is not wheelchair accessible. The closest wheelchair accessible stations are Whitechapel (15 min), Shoreditch High Street (15 min) or Liverpool Street (15 min).
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Photography & Video
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Since January 2024 Duchamp & Sons, Whitechapel Gallery’s youth collective, has been collaborating with artist Mohammed Z. Rahman.
Through experimentations ranging from scene-making to storyboarding, from writing to collaging and beyond, the collective have been working to explore ideas of personal histories, temporary homes and spaces of sanctuary.
Join us for this drop-in event where you can spend time exploring and adding to one of the collective’s recent creations — an installation piece featuring dioramas depicting domestic scenes, both imagined and real.
Spend time with us and create your own dioramas to add to our growing cardboard-box commune. We welcome you to relax in our studio space, find out more about our process of collaborating with Mohammed Z. Rahman, and to share your own perspectives on home, sanctuary and displacement.
This is a drop in event. All ages are welcome.
Duchamp & Sons is a collective of 15-24 year olds from across London who meet regularly to experiment with art, curate exhibitions and events, and share space for food and conversation.
This event has been collaboratively curated by Aisha, Amir, Amy, Ash, Audrey, Camila, Constança, Elliot, Faith, Freya, Jessica, Ruth, San, and Shannay, Terrell and Zee.
Mohammed Z Rahman (he/they) is a British-Bengali visual artist and writer based in London. His work puts socio-political and personal histories in conversation through the lens of the domestic. Mohammed’s visual output includes illustration, painting and zines. His literary output includes short stories, poetry and essays.
With a background in social anthropology (BA, SOAS), Mohammed approaches art as an intimate and political force probing and mutating the ordinary. Drawing on dreamscapes, globality, queerness, biography and socio-historical perspectives, he creates work that celebrates his communities’ internationalist dreams, disrupts violent power structures and makes peace with unspeakable chaos.
