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ANNA BARHAM
PEGGY FRANCK
ALESSANDRA SPRANZI
16 MAY-4 JULY 2026
Anna Barham
Peggy Franck
Alessandra Spranzi
This exhibition brings together Anna Barham, Peggy Franck, and Alessandra Spranzi, exploring how images, materials, and ideas move across space and time. Working from distinct positions, Barham and Franck share overlapping interests in gesture and process, transforming everyday or overlooked materials into open-ended forms.
Within Arcade’s open-plan structure, Pete and Repeat, a project platform in the gallery, hosts Spranzi’s printed matter — books, pamphlets, and leaflets — presented in direct dialogue with the exhibition. By giving this work a defined place, the exhibition levels hierarchies between singular artworks and distributed forms of image-making.
MARIJKE DE ROOVER
SEND IN THE CLOWNS
SEPT-OCT 2026
Send in the Clowns explores what happens when images, ideas, and gestures begin to circulate beyond the artist’s control. Drawing on the figure of the court jester and the tragic pagliacci, the exhibition treats the clown not as a character but as a method; a lens through which humour, critique, and failure expose the absurdities of contemporary cultural scripts. At its centre is My Bed (Unmade, Unmoored, Unrepentant), a sculptural installation that echoes and reimagines the intimate chaos of Tracey Emin’s iconic bed, combining confession, theory, and domestic disorder. Surrounding works include a scrolling manifesto, radical feminist theory memes, and video installations that riff on the rhythms of internet philosophy and viral culture. Moving between sculpture, text, video, and digital vernacular, the exhibition traces how meaning circulates, mutates, and escapes control. Rather than seeking resolution, Send in the Clowns embraces misreading, humour, and instability as fertile ground for artistic and political reflection.