An exhibition by Monya Riachi

8th - 16 February 25

Safe Waters, an exhibition by Monya Riachi, marks the culmination of research developed during her yearlong Graduate residency award at Lewisham Arthouse. The work starts by considering the very building it is exhibited in, the year of its construction and the story of the founding of Lewisham, before exploring their ties – through material, resource and power – to the continued violence on the land from which the artist comes: the Levant. Drawing connections across geographies and time, Monya uses maps, salt, water and the poppy as both subjects and materials to create a site-specific installation that holds notions of history and our present. Safe Waters has received curatorial support from Jessica El Mal as part of As We Are, Might Have Been and Could Be, the Arab British Centre’s three-year visual arts and talent development programme supported by Freelands Foundation.