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01/06/2026

We're excited to open ‘The Living River’ solo exhibition by Armineh Negahdari, this coming Wednesday 3 June 6-9pm– all welcome! ✨

Negahdari’s drawing often extends beyond paper, it briefly inhabits the materials of everyday life: bedsheets, fabric scraps, wrapping paper, and cardboard packaging, co-opted as surfaces, that carry the quiet residues of her routine. Appearing to spill into provisional space, these materials retain their own histories and resistances. On these textured, unstable grounds, grainy smudges of graphite and oil disperse a portrayal of figures, anchored within makeshift and fragile landscapes.

Image 1:
Armineh Negahdari 'Une fenêtre me suffit', (One window is enough for me) 2026, charcoal, pastel, oil
27 × 19cm

Image 2:
Collecting food packaging in Iran photo story by Armineh Negahdari

Generously supported by Elephant Trust, Fluxus Art Projects, and Cinéma Lumière, London

20/05/2026

'The Living River’ newly commissioned work and the first UK solo exhibition by Iranian artist Armineh Negahdari opening Wednesday 3 June, 6pm–9pm

This exhibition affirms the artist's persistent commitment to drawing as a practice, while suspending the viewer between presence and disappearance. The exhibition is driven by the artist’s sense of urgency in the face of moments, actions or memories being lost.

Drawing runs as a continuous thread – across oil, graphite, and charcoal – to reflect Negahdari’s sustained commitment to the legitimacy of her thoughts and actions. Embedded in the fabric of her daily life, her practice has become ritual. Through repetition, she navigates between tension and moments of collapse; compelled by necessity and sustained through constant renewal, each gesture returns to the self. Lines and traces may appear as figures that are never fixed: they slip between human, botanical, and animal condition. A flower head becomes a face; a limb, merges into terrain. These unstable bodies evade narrative finality, inviting prolonged attention to processes of change.

In conjunction with the exhibition a film programme has been conceived collaboratively by Negahdari and curator Anne-Sophie Dinant, to be presented at Cinéma Lumière, London on 28 June, 6–9pm, in conjunction with the exhibition. Exploring how Negahdari’s work resonates with cinematic language, it will include rarely screened works by pioneering film-makers. Across these works, the programme traces a shared language between drawing and film.

Armineh Negahdari (b. 1994, Tehran) lives and works in Bordeaux. This project follows her current solo exhibition, ‘What Colour Is Your Sky Today?’ on view at Fondation Louis Vuitton as part of OPEN SPACE #18 from April to August 2026. The exhibition is presented in partnership with S.M.A.K. Ghent, which will host a solo exhibition of the artist’s work in 2027.

Generously supported by Fluxus Art Projects, Elephant Trust and Cinéma Lumière, Institute Français.

Image: Armineh Negahdari- 'Les mains volantes' 2026

14/05/2026

We are excited to announce that Iranian artist Armineh Negahdari is currently working towards her first UK solo exhibition, 'The Living River', opening at Cell Project Space on 3rd June.

Poetry persists as a condition within Nagadari’s practice from where the exhibition takes its title. In Shams Langeroodi's poem 'Lotus of the Swamp' the living river does not represent, but enact: a rise and recession, a pulse, a continuous deferral that folds inevitability into movement.

Flowing between memory, immersion, and form, the exhibition will gather a new body of work rooted in drawing as both process and ritual.

Armineh Negahdari, (b.Tehran) lives and works in Bordeaux. The artist recently presented their solo exhibition 'What Colour Is Your Sky Today?' at OPEN SPACE #18, Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris in April 2026, presented in partnership with S.M.A.K. in Ghent, which will feature a solo exhibition by the artist in 2027.

Recent solo exhibitions in 2025 include Art Basel Statements, Basel, Switzerland, and ‘Un oiseau passe. Je le suis (with Aurélien Froment)’, Marcelle Alix, Paris, FR. Recent group exhibitions in 2026 include ‘Langues empruntées’, Centre International d’Art et du Paysage Île de Vassivière, FR, and ‘Selection of drawings from the collection of Antoine de Galbert’, Église Sainte-Anne, Arles, FR. Past exhibitions include ‘Sara Bichao, Diver’s flight’ Galerie Filomera Soares, Lisbon,PT; ‘Dislocations’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR; ‘What happens when we cry?, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, FR, (both 2024).
Her works are held in public collections; Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR, SMAK, Ghent, BE, and MAMC+ Saint-Etienne, FR.

All welcome! For further information and press please contact Annnabelle Mödlinger: [email protected]

We are thankful for the very generous supported from Fluxus Art Projects and Elephant Trust.
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Image text: from 'Lotus of the Swamp' by Shams Langeroodi

02/05/2026

It’s the last chance to see LA Timpa’s solo show ‘Come Back’ this weekend! Don’t miss it.
We are open until Sunday 3 May, 12-6pm.

Pictured: ‘Animations’, 2022-2023
Cassette tape recording and single channel video

Image by Damian Griffiths

Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts
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30/04/2026

Originally published by 27 Seiten for ‘I got a new joint: what I shouldn’t do with money’ at Kunsthalle Winterthur, LA Timpa’s novella ‘A Destiny in Jeopardy’ (2025) is now available to purchase.

Copies are priced at £15 and can be acquired in person at the gallery during the final week of ‘Come Back’, LA Timpa’s solo exhibition at Cell Project Space, or ordered online via PayPal through our shop (link in bio / DM for details).

We are open from Thursday until Sunday, 12-6pm
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25/04/2026

Final days to catch LA Timpa’s ‘Come Back’! We are open all weekend, 12-6pm.
The exhibition runs until Sunday 3rd May.

Through repair, adaptation, and processes of sequencing, erasure, and production, Timpa’s work carries traces of improvisation, reflecting tensions between fragility and resilience. Recording, listening, and making operate as both emotional strategies and conceptual gestures, to navigate the porous terrain between internal worlds and the social and political structures that surround them. Drawing on personal narratives shaped by precarity, the work extends to broader reflections on exile and return.

Slide 1: ‘Mist’, 2026
Mixed media
Variable dimensions

Slide 2: ‘Animations’, 2022-2023
Casette tape recording and single channel video

Slide 3&4: ‘Dorm’, 2026
Mixed media
35 x 39 cm

Images by Damian Griffiths

Supported by Ontario Arts Council, Canada
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23/04/2026

It was a pleasure to welcome back members of the Art Writing Group (formerly Goldsmiths Art Writing Group) to the gallery last Monday for their workshop, ‘A Finely Tuned Battery of Senses’, facilitated by co-founders of the group Oli Mardon and Frank Wates.

Participants were invited to engage with LA Timpa’s current exhibition ‘Come Back’, by documenting their journeys to the gallery with a focus on sensory detail and collating small booklets from found images they had brought with them, drawing inspiration from Timpa’s 2025 novella ‘A Destiny in Jeopardy’.

The workshop will continue to develop into the group’s first publication, documenting writing and image experimentation – launch date to be announced in May.

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20/04/2026

If you missed last week's screening !!!!

From 11am today: LA Timpa presents Alex Harsley’s Photodirect—streaming LIVE on our homepage.

A kaleidoscopic series of film and video shorts, Photodirect moves between diaristic fragments, downtown NYC street scenes, and intimate portraits of Black artistic communities across decades.

Shot on 35mm and early video, and drawn from a 60-year archive, Harsley’s work layers collage, sound, and lo-fi experimentation into a richly psychedelic viewing experience.

Link in our bio:

🎧 Headphones recommended.
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16/04/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us yesterday evening for LA Timpa’s special presentation of moving-image shorts from the acclaimed YouTube series Photodirect by artist Alex Harsley (b. 1932, USA). Presented and streamed across multiple screens within Timpa's exhibition the event also featured the premiere of 'Bond', for which Harsley created a new video to accompany the track, set to appear on Timpa’s forthcoming album.

Led by curator and programmer Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura (), in conversation with LA Timpa, the event offered a thoughtful expansion on the vast archive of footage that Alex Harsley has built over decades.

Thank you, Tabitha, for so carefully recognising Harsley’s deep commitment to his community, his generosity of spirit, enduring curiosity, and dedication to enquiry, experimentation, and chance. Through her framing, she illuminated how his work not only documents the rich network of artists, writers, and scholars in downtown New York, but also attends to his community and immediate surroundings: the everyday, the textures of the city, and the analogue processes that resonate so strongly with LA Timpa’s practice.

To listen to Tabitha & Timpa in conversation, visit the recording on our website - link in our bio

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