Artist Prem Sahib will be in conversation with art historian Francesco Ventrella to discuss their current exhibition Documents of a recent past.
The exhibition brings together images, text, furniture and sound that centre around and depart from The Backstreet – London’s oldest and longest-running gay leather bar, which closed in 2022 after almost four decades.
Extending their enquiries into interiority and marginal spaces, Sahib's presentation includes a new audiovisual work-in-progress, Footnotes for Heros. Bridging both biographical experience and social record, the artist's work merges the personal and political.
Sahib will discuss their archival practices in new and recent work, in which they document public and private queer spaces that have shaped individual and communal identities, exploring belonging and alienation.
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