Elli Antoniou (SNF ARTWORKS Fellow 2022) participates in two exhibitions in London.

29/11 Al Dente: A Feast for the Senses
Curated by Edoardo Monti
Bernston Bhattachatjee, London, W1T 3NE

30/11 things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Curated by Kollektiv Collective
Tabula Rasa Gallery, London, N1 6AQ

Al Dente: A Feast for the Senses opens on Wednesday, 29 November 6-8pm, at Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery. Guest-curated by Edoardo Monti, the exhibition is shining a spotlight on the creative endeavours of twelve artists who recently completed a month-long residency at his prestigious Palazzo Monti in Brescia, Italy. Monti has carefully curated a selection of artists who are evolving the craft of their artistic field and finding international recognition as ones to watch. Exhibited artists are Hiva Alizadeh, Elli Antoniou, Andrea Bocca, Bea Bonafini, Thomas De Falco, Kirsten Deirup, John Fou, David Gardner, Delphine Hennelly, Eliza Hopewell, Madeleine Roger-Lacan, and Hannah Tilson.

As the founder and driving force behind one of the world’s leading residencies, Monti places paramount importance on his social duty to nurture and champion emerging talent. In doing so, he has established a sense of community and refuge at Palazzo Monti, where resident artists become part of his family and home. Al Dente: A Feast for the Senses is an example of Monti’s curatorial household and aptitude for bringing together artists with diverse practices and

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things fall apart; the centre cannot hold opens on Thursday, 30 November, 6–8pm, at Tabula Rasa Gallery. Guest-curated by London-based curatorial collective Kollektiv Collective, this collaborative and site-specific group exhibition features newly commissioned and existing works by artists Elli Antoniou, Ali Glover and Richard Dean Hughes.

In an attempt to think the unthought and give form to the formless, things fall apart; the centre cannot hold explores an aesthetic of rebuilding. Seeking potential in slippage and dissonance, it imagines a mode of perception turning to non-quantifiable ways of understanding. Relying on opacity and ambivalence as sources of knowledge, the exhibition dilutes the familiar and reverses the definite, searching for liberation in the absence of anticipation. The gallery becomes trapped in the vacuum of its own space, where the facades have collapsed and in the ruins of certainty, secrets are revealed in whispers. Alongside each other, the works of Elli Antoniou, Ali Glover and Richard Hughes defy expectations, demanding questions be answered otherwise.