Gentle Revolts: Members Show 2024-5
4 December 2025 - 31 January 2026
Launch event: Thu 4 December
6 - 8pm
Curator’s tour for Bloc Projects Members:
5 - 6pm
Free & open to all
Selected by Umulkhayr Mohamed
Simona Brinkmann
Lucie Kordacova & Miroslava Vecerova
Ash Martin
Lucy Wright
Lucie Kordacova & Miroslava Vecerova, From Arid Landscapes to Ancient Waters, 2024. Installation view. Image credit: Jana Gombiková.
We are excited to present a cross-section of work by practitioners who were selected to take part in our annual Bloc Projects’ Members Show 2024-5. The works by Simona Brinkmann, Lucie Kordacova & Miroslava Vecerova, Ash Martin and Lucy Wright were selected by artist-curator Umulkhayr Mohamed, who has brought them under the title of Gentle Revolts:
It has been a pleasure to curate Bloc Projects’ latest Members Show. Gentle Revolts brings together four artists whose practices share a sensitivity for transformation, play, and the undoing of established orders. I was drawn to each artist I selected, as they all engage in an act of re-articulation, using material, narrative and form to explore how traditions might be unmade and remade, in ways hat gently reclaim the power to shape culture from established authorities. Their works are bound by a lightness of touch that belies their conceptual depth, inviting us all to enter spaces of curiosity and re-examination. Across the exhibition, there is a shared sense of openness and ease, a lowering of defences that welcomes participation in this collective reimagining of how we see, remember and belong.
Lucy’s work anchors the show through its fusion of folk histories with contemporary questions of care, kinship, and resistance, transforming traditional motifs into agents for inclusivity and social renewal. Simona’s precise reconfiguration of found and fabricated objects extends this conversation into spatial politics, examining how the infrastructures of daily life can be metabolised and re-conceived. Lucie and Miroslava’s layered, ecofeminist practice draws from myth and ritual to address the interdependence between humans and the more-than-human world, while Ash’s vivid and humorous mythologies rework spiritual and personal symbols into playful, introspective forms. Together, their works speak to the possibility of joy within critique and tenderness within transformation.
Bloc Projects Members are invited to attend a curator’s tour led by Umulkhayr an hour before the launch on Thursday 4 December, from 5 - 6pm.
Umulkhayr Mohamed (they/he/she) is a Welsh Somali artist, writer, curator, and radical educator who produces work under the alias Aisha Ajnabi, their 'art other'. His art is the place where they are able to join the practising of spirituality rooted in animism and ancestral honouring with her politic grounded in solidarity and liberation. Creatively, he is excited by exploring the tension present between enjoying the act of meandering through emancipatory temporalities and feeling the need to position oneself in the now so as to remain relevant. As a result of this tension she has honed a way of producing work that is multilayered, nuanced, and provides multiple inroads into the work’s core, which itself is often of real and/or imagined dichotomies.
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