Wednesday 30 September. 1h42min

Sarah Edmondson is a video and installation artist who has just completed an MFA at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. Sarah’s research provides a critique of the gifting of moon rock to nations and states, with a particular focus on Ireland, by President Nixon in 1973. Almost 50 years later, Sarah is concerned and intrigued by the acceptance of these so-called gifts, curious about the political implications embodied in these slivers of stolen stone and their relevance to current space law and the privatisation of the space race.

Kitoko Diva’s hybrid practice between photography, moving images and sound creates absorbing performance and immersive video installations interacting with identity, race, social structure and surrealism. Her work challenges contemporary socio-political economic issues by building alternative landscapes and substitutes realities with new forms of cinematography. She creates a series of socially engaged, inclusive cinematic shots with dream-like symbolism traversing space and time to redefine what you think you know about yourself, the world and blackness.
After studying theatre performance, Kitoko Diva started experimenting filmmaking, music and graduated with a BFA in Art History & Archeology, majoring in Cinema. Her work has been screened at the Tate Modern for Southwark Untold Pempeople, BlackStar Festival and was selected for the 70th edition of Jeune Creation’s performance program in France. Born in Paris, France from Congolese-Angolan parents, she lives and works in London, United Kingdom.

Celina F. Lage is an Italian born in Brazil. Her transdisciplinary artistic research is characterized by concerns with poetry, philosophy & mythology. Her artworks reflect in a peculiar way her passion for words and images, letters, poetic and metalinguistic mechanisms. She works mainly with painting and digital image. Her art is conceptual and postminimalist. This theoretical characteristic derives from her background in Ancient Greek Literature & Philosophy. She took part in exhibitions and festivals in New Zealand, Spain, Greece, Argentina, England, Germany, Denmark & Brazil. Celina F. Lage is also Professor of Curation and Contemporary Art in the State University of Minas Gerais (UEMG), Brazil. She collaborated from 2009 to 2012 in the Graduate Program in Applied Arts at the Hellenic Open University, Greece. Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Master of Theory of Literature and Bachelor of Philology, major in Greek and Latin. Post-doctorate in the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens and Athens School of Fine Arts (Greece). Former Fellow of the Alexander Onassis Foundation, the State Scholarships Foundation (Greece) and CNPq (Brazil).

Lumen Studios is an art collective, focused on themes of astronomy and light, regularly exhibiting in churches as well as galleries. Through art, exhibitions and seminars we aim to raise a dialogue about how humanity understands existence. The members of Lumen are Louise Beer, Melanie King and Rebecca Huxley.

Lumen first launched at The Crypt Gallery in Saint Pancras on the Winter Solstice in December 2014. Since then, Lumen has curated exhibitions about a wide range of subjects including the detrimental effects of light pollution, the representation of voids and black holes. Since May 2015, Lumen have also curated exhibitions within their own gallery space the Crypt at St John on Bethnal Green, in their gallery Lumen have curated group shows, solo shows and artist in residence programmes.

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