Guest curator A—Z (Anne Duffau) presents a group exhibition with three multidisciplinary artists: Jeanie Crystal, Zein Majali and Emily Pope. In association with the 23rd edition of PAF Olomouc – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art 2024, the second iteration of You Make Me Feel which was originally displayed at XY Gallery, Czech Republic. Relating to the theme of diaries and self narratives in all forms – including stories, notes, self-reflection, social networks and periodic writing – You Make Me Feel is a chunk of emotions, a bundle of affects, a note to your future self.
A series of performances and screenings will be programmed for our Dilston Gallery alongside the exhibition at our Lake Gallery, with further details to be announced in 2025.
This exhibition is generously supported by Arts Council England. With thanks to PAF and XY Gallery.
BIOS
Anne Duffau is a cultural producer, researcher, and founder of A—Z, an exploratory/nomadic curatorial platform. A—Z aims to open up to audiences by sharing discursive practices in order to challenge preconceived ideas about race, gender identities and so-called history in terms of power relationships. She has worked with PAF Olomouc since 2017, programming screenings and exhibitions. She co-funded and programmed the collectives: Transmissions.tv and Décalé. She is a Tutor at the Royal College of Art’s Contemporary Art Practice Programme and works as a freelance producer/researcher for Somerset House Studios. She produces monthly shows on Resonance FM and stegi.radio and live music under Alpha through several projects and collaborations (MAENADS, Polisonics, The New Adolescents). Her latest project was hosted at Matt’s Gallery (May-Sept 2024) and is an ongoing series titled: Always Coming Home.
Jeanie Crystal is an artist, performer, musician and DJ – she co-funded Faboo.TV, Harpies and is part of the band: Jeanie and The White Boys.
Zein Majali is a Jordanian-Palestinian artist based in London. Formerly an engineer and data analyst, she turned to the arts out of an urgency to archive and examine the accelerated cultural shifts in the Arab world. While her work touches on a post-colonial and globalised Middle East, her primary area of interest is the internet and its effects on both geopolitics and community. Her practice includes moving image, sound, performance, AI and sculpture.
Emily Pope is a multidisciplinary artist and writer living and working in London. She is interested in series making, and has been making The Sitcom Show, a failed sitcom recording life under austerity measures in the UK, since 2016. Her research focuses on: a history of experimental broadcast media, humour and satire, intersectional feminism, dyke subjectivities, political rhetoric and class politics.
