iamb
Nicole Bachmann
Ladina Clément
Rosa Klerkx
Eldar Krainer
Théïa Maldoom
Gabriela Pelczarska
Mae Nicolaou
Theo Papandreopoulos
Rebecca Halliwell Sutton
Private view:
Tuesday, 10th April, 6–9pm
Exhibition dates:
11th April- 3rd May, 2025
iamb
Clack-CLACK, Clack-CLACK, Clack-CLACK.
Rattling tube carriages echo overhead. Scrawled graffiti and weathered concrete bollards line the approach like hedgerows.
The to and fro of the city is felt in this little alcove.
The arteries of London have steered these objects together — objects that seek eternal voyages, fleeting glimpses of the limelight.1
Their true havens lie beneath their creators’ beds or in dust-laden attics.
Yet here, these travelling objects hum, beat, and screech, adding to the city’s cacophony.2
A hammer twangs on sheet metal as it echoes through the bones — vibrating.
The articulation of the joint, repeatedly pounding.
The inarticulation of the voice, unable to find correct placement between the tongue, the teeth, and the lips.
Murmuring. Cursing. Sweating. Gesticulating.
Performing to the roll call of the trumpet.
Curtains up and ready to go — these bodies are on show.
The term iamb, ἴαμβος or iambos comes from the quantitative meter of classical Greek prosody and has widely been used in English literature, from Shakespeare to Keats. The rhythm mimics the beat of a heart, with the words alternating between unstressed and stressed syllables
—da-DUM, da-DUM, da-DUM.
The works featured in this exhibition dance inside and out of the parameters of the body, they traverse between internal desires and external effects – from the hand that writes, to the voice that speaks, to the heart that yearns, to city dwellers that leave a trace. This interdisciplinary exhibition brings together nine emerging artists whose works span sculpture, sound, performance and video; it is a celebration of mediums that crave more space and attention in an ever commercially minded art world. iamb hosts work by artists Nicole Bachmann, Rosa Klerkx and Théïa Maldoom who employ intuitive, improvisational and rhythmic approaches in their performances. Gabriela Pelczarska, Eldar Krainer and Mae Nicolaou’s sculptures draw from interactions with readymade urban objects. While Rebecca Halliwell Sutton, Theo Papandreopoulos and Ladina Clément create vessels of embodied sound, through the strike of a mallet on metal to the blow of a horn to whispers on the wind.
This exhibition is Ladina Clément and Theo Papandreopoulos’ debut collaboration as curators. It is a meeting point between their British and Greek identities and a friendship forged through the arts and London.
1 “In a love affair, most seek an eternal homeland. Others, but very few, eternal voyaging.” Walter Benjamin, (2009) One-way Street and
Other Writings, p.81, Penguin Books.
2 1950s American Beat Generation of poets.
Nicole Bachmann
Nicole Bachmann (b.Zurich, CH) works and lives between Zurich, CH and London, UK. She holds a Diploma in Fine Art from Zurich University of the Arts (2007) and an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London (2010). Awards Include: Nomination Prix littéraire internationale Bernard Heidsieck Centre Pompidou, shortlisted (2022), Nomination, Swiss Art Awards, shortlisted (2019); Freiraumstipendium, Zurich, CH (2018); Werkbeitrag, Stadt Zurich, winner (2015 & 2018); Helvetia Art Prize 2008 (2008); Swiss Design Award (2003).
Bachmann has been exhibited internationally at galleries, institutions, biennials and fairs, including: Singapore Biennale 2019, SG; Manifesta 11, Zurich, CH; Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; Bündner Kunstmuseum, Chur, CH; ICA, London, UK; Kunsthalle St.Gallen, CH; Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK; Darling Foundation, Montreal, CA; Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK; Tenderpixel, London, UK; Block Universe, Performance Art Festival, London, UK; Berlin Espace Diaphanes, Berlin, DE; Helmhaus Museum, Zurich, CH; Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK; Haus der Kunst Uri, Altdorf, CH; LUX Artists’ Moving Image, London, UK; Art Hall Tallinn, Tallinn, EE; New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, USA; Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, CH; Videotank, Zurich, CH; Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, FR; Mimosa House, London, UK; E-Werk Freiburg, Freiburg, DE; TOPIC, Geneva, CH; Istituto Svizzero Rome, IT, VITRINE, London, UK and Basel, UK.
Residencies include: Research residency in India, Pro Helvetia (2024); LUX, London, UK (2016); Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh, UK (2015); Escalator program, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire, UK (2011).
Bachmann recently presented her first institutional solo show at the Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, UK (2024)
Ladina Clément
Ladina Clément (b. 1996) is based in London. She is a 2022 alumnus from the Royal College of Art MA Sculpture programme and Leverhulme Trust Arts scholar. Clément graduated from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA (Hons) Sculpture degree in 2018. In February 2024 she had a solo exhibition at The Stone Space, London and has shown her work in group shows across the UK as well as internationally. She has exhibited in Saatchi Gallery, London; MK Gallery, Milton Keynes; the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh as well as the Thorvaldsens Museum in Copenhagen. In January 2024 she completed Good Eye Projects’ Autumn Residency, and in 2022 received the RCA Gilbert Bayes Award and was a finalist in the Ingram Prize.
Rosa Klerkx
Rosa Klerkx (b. Amsterdam, NL) works across video, performance, photography and sound. Combining notation systems and instructive working methods with a loose intuitive approach, her performance-based video works end up moving in and out of sync as one or several dancers move their way through each choreography. The locations she works in often have a sense of emptiness or neglect, creating slow results in which time is stretched out into stillness. Rosa is currently in her final year at the Royal Academy Schools. She has exhibited at galleries such as The Royal Academy of Arts, South Parade Gallery, De Nijverheid (Utrecht), 16 Nicholson Street (Glasgow) and The Pipe Factory (Glasgow).
Eldar Krainer
Eldar Krainer (b. 1992, IL) works across different sculptural techniques, from metalwork and casting to 3D modelling and CNC cutting. He integrates digital imagery with urban landscapes to create tangible records of human emotions and interactions. Krainer earned his MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths, University of London (2023). His work has been exhibited at The Lobby Art Space (TLV), Filet Space (LDN), Studio Aliya 31 (TLV), Studio West Gallery (LDN), Copeland Gallery (LDN), the Edmond de Rothschild Center (TLV), and Art Cube Artists’ Studios (JLM).
Théïa Maldoom
Théïa Maldoom is a dance artist, improvisation and an awareness of senses, memory and imagination are central to her practice. Important threads in her thinking are; care, collectivity and expansive understandings of who we are and who we can be. Alongside her performance practice, Théïa works as a movement director with artists such as The Last Dinner Party and also runs a quarterly improvised performance night- ‘Mind The Gap’.
Gabriela Pelczarska
Gabriela Pelczarska (1996) was born in Poland and is working and living in London. With an MFA from Goldsmiths University in 2023 and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art Sculpture from Brighton University in 2018.
Her practice is based on interests surrounding urban research, materiality, and automotive technology. Gabriela’s research delves into the intersections of technology, urban control, and aesthetics, questioning how these elements shape our perception of space and identity in the contemporary world.
Her work engages with the mundane occurrences of globalization and automotive technology, with an emphasis on contemporary existence. It explores the delicate irony between industrial processes, technology, psychology, and playfulness within urban environments, juxtaposed with the artistic use of materiality. Through repurposing objects, materials, and intangible mediums, the work examines the interplay between the irony and the sincerity of the modern city. It reflects on the fate of potential, forgotten dreams, and discarded ambitions—exploring where these concepts, both metaphorically and emotionally, go.
Mae Nicolaou
Mae Nicolaou (b. 1997, Dublin, Ireland) is a visual artist based in London, UK, currently pursuing a Master’s in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work finds its centre in the margins, engaging with small, seemingly insignificant elements of everyday life, activated by an interest in the covert. These works oscillate between the figurative and the seemingly functional. In its quiet contemplation of the mundane, her work addresses the impermanence of existence, serving as markers for our need for comfort and affirmation. Mae explores this need as a source of unease that is rooted in materiality—whether in the neglect of the body, the waste of the earth, or the continuous flow of objects that pass through her hands.
A graduate of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Mae received the Emerging Artist Bursary from DLR County Council (2024) and was shortlisted for the QEST Emerging Maker Grant (2024). She was also awarded the Graduate Studio Bursary Award for a Sculpture Workshop Residency at Fire Station Artist Studios in Dublin (2021).
Mae was selected for the Dublin Art Book Fair 2024, where her publication was part of Fictions – The Makings of Other Worlds at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, and also has a publication in A6 BOOKS at the London Centre for Book Arts (2025).
Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton
Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton work engages sculpture, photography and writing utilising the transformative properties of materials, language and light. Their references span many points in time, connected to bodies and land, but ultimately meaning dissolves into the making and the practice explores how sculpture embodies feeling.
Rebecca Halliwell-Sutton (b.1991, Bolton) lives and works in Manchester, graduating from the Royal Academy of Arts post-graduate programme (2018-2022) winning the Patricia Turner Sculpture Prize. Previously studied at Manchester School of Art (2016) and won the 2016 Woon Prize Foundation Fellowship with BALTIC & Northumbria University and graduated from School of The Damned, an alternative self-organised MA, in 2018.
Group exhibitions include: Love and Mankind is Grass, Blue Whip, Margate (2025);The Salon by NADA & The Community, NightCafe, Paris (2024); TERRA II, Apsara Studio, Burgundy (2024); Our Teeth are Reefs, Collective Ending x Slugtown, London (2024); Alone Time, Union Pacific, London (2023); Babel, Spazio Musa, Turin (2023); Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Buckinghamshire (2023); LANDGRAB, The Shop, Sadie Coles HQ, London (2019).
Solo & duo presentations: On Folding Ground, with Lucy Neish, NightCafe, London (2024); Openings, Recent Activity, Birmingham (2024); Through ions & stratus, Royal Academy Schools, London (2022);Texts from the Universe, STCFTHOTS, Leeds; Relics of what could be, Slugtown, Newcastle; Field Studies of Touch, Gallery North, Newcastle (2017).
Theo Papandreopoulos
Theo Papandreopoulos holds an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art and a BA in Visual and Applied Arts from (AUTH) Greece. He was awarded a scholarship by the Erasmus exchange program to study at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne(UPJV), Amiens, France. Theo has exhibited in many museums and other venues, such as The Old Operating Theatre Museum in London & and the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art in Greece. He had a solo show last year in the Lion and Lamb art space in Farnham, where he was invited by UCA University and this year in the Pause/frame gallery in London.
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