When Things Fail to Cohere: Members Show 2026
25 June - 8 August 2026
Launch event: Thu 25 June
6 - 8pm
Free & open to all
Selected by Jun Rui Lo
Romane Courdacher
Alana Lake
Lucy Marriott
Ngo Chun Tse
We are delighted to present a selection of works by artists from the Bloc Projects Membership for our annual Members Show.
Under the title of When Things Fail to Cohere, this year’s edition was selected by artist-curator Jun Rui Lo and features Romane Courdacher, Alana Lake, Lucy Marriott and Ngo Chun Tse. In Jun Rui’s own words:
When Things Fail to Cohere brings together four artists working across sculpture, installation, moving image, print and text to explore different states of uncertainty: the fear of and yearning for power; the freedom and struggle of the queer body; the drifting voyeur; and those who have lost their way. In their shared ambiguity, the works collectively invite a kind of disquieting contemplation.
Alana Lake’s queer minimalist sculptures refer to the force and violence that belie structures of power. Similarly emphasising material realities, Lucy Marriott creates mythical flesh-like forms with rubber tubes and rose thorns that play out the lived experiences of queer bodies. Romane Courdacher assembles photographs, sounds and found objects to unexpectedly conjure a spectral presence. And by skewing our visual perception, Ngo Chun Tse’s video installation is an uncanny reflection on movement and displacement. Keenly destabilising, When Things Fail to Cohere considers how we navigate and position the social realities that shape our lives.
Jun Rui Lo is a Hong Kong-born artist and curator based in Manchester who makes and curates with an interest in identity politics and the aesthetics of ambiguity. Rooted in their gender nonconformity and diasporic experience, their practice explores the fluidity and freedom of identity while giving form to feelings of melancholy and alienation. Jun Rui creates spaces that unfold queer, diasporic, and transnational narratives through exhibition-making.
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