Thu 27 Aug 2026, 7 - 7.30pm
Gallery 5
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About This Event
This event takes place in Gallery 5 and the Foyle Reading Room at Whitechapel Gallery, located on floor 1A.
This performance lasts approximately 30 minutes.
You must book a ticket to attend the event.
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.
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).
Free parking for Blue Badge holders is available at the top of Osborn Street in the pay and display booths for an unlimited period. Spaces are available on a first come, first served basis.
Through skips, jumps and loops, Puer Deorum breathes life through the pages of OITIJ-JO Collective’s Community Library of South Asian books in the Foyle Reading Room.
They draw a bigger picture, reconstructing and reassembling narratives through a vortex of improvised sound and impulsive experiments in poetic form. Responding to the 2025 mob attack that destroyed musical instruments, books and artefacts in a significant cultural institution in Dhaka, the performance activates Deorum’s sculptural installation Retrocausality; Time Folds in on Itself (2026) exhibited in OITIJ-JO Collective: TUFAN.
This performance will take place in Gallery 5 and the Foyle Reading Room.
This event accompanies our current exhibition OITIJ-JO Collective: TUFAN.
Puer Deorum balances negotiations between weight and ephemerality, and the scope of mortality. Referencing psycho/socio political geographies, they question ideas around the experience of time. Teasing temporalities through endurance and duration, amplifying (inter)personal experiences through dream sequences, interpretive actions, and incantations of love.
As an interdisciplinary artist, their work stems from a foundation of thinking through the body, moving between disciplines. They draw from emotional landscapes and respond to site through documenting the covert in the everyday and layering memories to create cartographies, serving as undercurrents to the imagining of alternative futures, parallel worlds and co-existing timelines.
Selected sharings of their art include: Whitechapel Gallery (UK), Serendipity Arts Festival (IN), Les Urbaines (CH). They were a finalist for the WoCAA, receiving the Rita Keegan Foundation travel award (2026) and were awarded Arts Council DYCP grant (2023). They curated ELO MELO festival (2023), in East London at Whitechapel Gallery and Toynbee Hall with Oitij-jo Collective. Talks in the UK include Serpentine Gallery, Tate Modern, and Glastonbury Festival. They are a participant in La Becque’s Principal Residency Programme (CH, 2026).
