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'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.
@armineh_negahdari @fluxus_art_projects @ifru_london @theelephanttrust

Image: Armineh Negahdari- 'Les mains volantes' 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 artist takes the title for her exhibition. 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: Annabelle@cellprojects.org

We are thankful for the very generous support from Fluxus Art Projects and Elephant Trust.
Link in bio

Image text: from 'Lotus of the Swamp' by Shams Langeroodi

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 artist takes the title for her exhibition. 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: Annabelle@cellprojects.org

We are thankful for the very generous support from Fluxus Art Projects and Elephant Trust.
Link in bio

Image text: from 'Lotus of the Swamp' by Shams Langeroodi

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

@l.a.timpa

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) curated by @gerrytedder 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

@l.a.timpa
@kunsthallewinterthur

Images by @vadimovna_studio

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) curated by @gerrytedder 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

@l.a.timpa
@kunsthallewinterthur

Images by @vadimovna_studio

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) curated by @gerrytedder 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

@l.a.timpa
@kunsthallewinterthur

Images by @vadimovna_studio

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 and Canada Council for the Arts

@l.a.timpa

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 and Canada Council for the Arts

@l.a.timpa

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 and Canada Council for the Arts

@l.a.timpa

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 and Canada Council for the Arts

@l.a.timpa

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.

@olmardon
@frank__wates
@eeshcam
@enoch2swag
@sofia.serpa.arango
@ebonyosun
@nicoleedi_
@circe.m.r
@emratamann
@ayshaleach
@ellsoni_
@sam953_
@mayaluciayayaya
__pip__

@l.a.timpa

Images by @vadimovna_studio

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.

@olmardon
@frank__wates
@eeshcam
@enoch2swag
@sofia.serpa.arango
@ebonyosun
@nicoleedi_
@circe.m.r
@emratamann
@ayshaleach
@ellsoni_
@sam953_
@mayaluciayayaya
__pip__

@l.a.timpa

Images by @vadimovna_studio

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.

@olmardon
@frank__wates
@eeshcam
@enoch2swag
@sofia.serpa.arango
@ebonyosun
@nicoleedi_
@circe.m.r
@emratamann
@ayshaleach
@ellsoni_
@sam953_
@mayaluciayayaya
__pip__

@l.a.timpa

Images by @vadimovna_studio

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.

@olmardon
@frank__wates
@eeshcam
@enoch2swag
@sofia.serpa.arango
@ebonyosun
@nicoleedi_
@circe.m.r
@emratamann
@ayshaleach
@ellsoni_
@sam953_
@mayaluciayayaya
__pip__

@l.a.timpa

Images by @vadimovna_studio

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.

@olmardon
@frank__wates
@eeshcam
@enoch2swag
@sofia.serpa.arango
@ebonyosun
@nicoleedi_
@circe.m.r
@emratamann
@ayshaleach
@ellsoni_
@sam953_
@mayaluciayayaya
__pip__

@l.a.timpa

Images by @vadimovna_studio

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.

@olmardon
@frank__wates
@eeshcam
@enoch2swag
@sofia.serpa.arango
@ebonyosun
@nicoleedi_
@circe.m.r
@emratamann
@ayshaleach
@ellsoni_
@sam953_
@mayaluciayayaya
__pip__

@l.a.timpa

Images by @vadimovna_studio

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.

@olmardon
@frank__wates
@eeshcam
@enoch2swag
@sofia.serpa.arango
@ebonyosun
@nicoleedi_
@circe.m.r
@emratamann
@ayshaleach
@ellsoni_
@sam953_
@mayaluciayayaya
__pip__

@l.a.timpa

Images by @vadimovna_studio

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.

@olmardon
@frank__wates
@eeshcam
@enoch2swag
@sofia.serpa.arango
@ebonyosun
@nicoleedi_
@circe.m.r
@emratamann
@ayshaleach
@ellsoni_
@sam953_
@mayaluciayayaya
__pip__

@l.a.timpa

Images by @vadimovna_studio

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.

@olmardon
@frank__wates
@eeshcam
@enoch2swag
@sofia.serpa.arango
@ebonyosun
@nicoleedi_
@circe.m.r
@emratamann
@ayshaleach
@ellsoni_
@sam953_
@mayaluciayayaya
__pip__

@l.a.timpa

Images by @vadimovna_studio

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.

@olmardon
@frank__wates
@eeshcam
@enoch2swag
@sofia.serpa.arango
@ebonyosun
@nicoleedi_
@circe.m.r
@emratamann
@ayshaleach
@ellsoni_
@sam953_
@mayaluciayayaya
__pip__

@l.a.timpa

Images by @vadimovna_studio

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.

@l.a.timpa @4thstreetphoto

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.

@l.a.timpa @4thstreetphoto

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 (@ttb_spiral), 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, 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 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

@4thstreetphoto @l.a.timpa @ttb_spiral

Photography: @vadimovna_studio

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 (@ttb_spiral), 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, 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 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

@4thstreetphoto @l.a.timpa @ttb_spiral

Photography: @vadimovna_studio

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 (@ttb_spiral), 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, 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 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

@4thstreetphoto @l.a.timpa @ttb_spiral

Photography: @vadimovna_studio

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 (@ttb_spiral), 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, 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 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

@4thstreetphoto @l.a.timpa @ttb_spiral

Photography: @vadimovna_studio

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 (@ttb_spiral), 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, 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 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

@4thstreetphoto @l.a.timpa @ttb_spiral

Photography: @vadimovna_studio

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 (@ttb_spiral), 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, 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 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

@4thstreetphoto @l.a.timpa @ttb_spiral

Photography: @vadimovna_studio

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 (@ttb_spiral), 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, 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 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

@4thstreetphoto @l.a.timpa @ttb_spiral

Photography: @vadimovna_studio

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 (@ttb_spiral), 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, 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 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

@4thstreetphoto @l.a.timpa @ttb_spiral

Photography: @vadimovna_studio

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 (@ttb_spiral), 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, 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 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

@4thstreetphoto @l.a.timpa @ttb_spiral

Photography: @vadimovna_studio

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 (@ttb_spiral), 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, 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 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

@4thstreetphoto @l.a.timpa @ttb_spiral

Photography: @vadimovna_studio

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 (@ttb_spiral), 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, 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 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

@4thstreetphoto @l.a.timpa @ttb_spiral

Photography: @vadimovna_studio

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 (@ttb_spiral), 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, 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 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

@4thstreetphoto @l.a.timpa @ttb_spiral

Photography: @vadimovna_studio

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 (@ttb_spiral), 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, 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 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

@4thstreetphoto @l.a.timpa @ttb_spiral

Photography: @vadimovna_studio

We are excited to announce that curator and programmer Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura will join us for a special presentation of selected moving image shorts from 'Photodirect’, the acclaimed YouTube series by artist Alex Harsley (b. 1932, USA) on Wednesday 15th April at 7pm.

Please RSVP via the link in our bio.

Selected by LA Timpa, the 'Photodirect' series is a compelling collection of film and video shorts, ranging from diaristic fragments and collage-like edits to grainy glimpses of downtown New York and its Black communities across decades. Using a classic 35mm SLR camera, and video camcorder, Harsley seamlessly moves between everyday life, offering a textured, often unfiltered portrait of people and environments that might otherwise go undocumented.

The event features the more fragmented and experimental body of work, that culminated into a feature length film, 'First Light' 2000-2020, which Harsley describes as depictions of the cosmos, where moving image gradually disintegrates into an expressionistic field of matter. This ambitious project emerged over two decades of shooting, layering, dissolving, and collaging images. Complex montages of flickering visuals and lo-fi early computer graphics are paired with Harsley’s musical scores.

Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura is a curator and programmer from London, specialising in independent music and contemporary culture. She led the celebrated NTS Radio for twelve years, most recently as Director of Music & Programming. She is the founder of the interdisciplinary platform Sabi Arts, presenting projects at institutions including TATE Modern, Haus Der Kunst, ICA London, Somerset House and beyond.

Alex Harsley is a pioneering New York based photographer, curator, and founder of the 4th Street Photo Gallery and The Minority Photographers non-profit since the early 1970's. His practice spans documentary and street photography, capturing everyday life in Harlem and the wider African diaspora. Alongside his artistic work, he has been a vital community figure, creating platforms for emerging artists and fostering dialogue around social justice, culture, and representation.

LA Timpa
Come Back
12-6pm, Thurs-Sun
Until May 3rd

Images:

1. ‘Irregularity (sit up)', 2026
Mixed media
57 x 43 cm

2. ‘Animations', 2022-2023
Cassette tape recording and
single channel video
- Without shouting, 4:58
- Patience, 3:05
- It’s ok to burn it to the pot, 3:52
- Moving, 5:45
- Passing up, 3:43
- Gal’s, 3:53

Mist, 2026
Mixed media
Variable dimensions

3. Detail - ‘Animations', 2022-2023

4. Detail - 'Irregularity (sit up)', 2026

Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts

Photography: Damian Griffiths

@ontarioartscouncil

LA Timpa
Come Back
12-6pm, Thurs-Sun
Until May 3rd

Images:

1. ‘Irregularity (sit up)', 2026
Mixed media
57 x 43 cm

2. ‘Animations', 2022-2023
Cassette tape recording and
single channel video
- Without shouting, 4:58
- Patience, 3:05
- It’s ok to burn it to the pot, 3:52
- Moving, 5:45
- Passing up, 3:43
- Gal’s, 3:53

Mist, 2026
Mixed media
Variable dimensions

3. Detail - ‘Animations', 2022-2023

4. Detail - 'Irregularity (sit up)', 2026

Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts

Photography: Damian Griffiths

@ontarioartscouncil

LA Timpa
Come Back
12-6pm, Thurs-Sun
Until May 3rd

Images:

1. ‘Irregularity (sit up)', 2026
Mixed media
57 x 43 cm

2. ‘Animations', 2022-2023
Cassette tape recording and
single channel video
- Without shouting, 4:58
- Patience, 3:05
- It’s ok to burn it to the pot, 3:52
- Moving, 5:45
- Passing up, 3:43
- Gal’s, 3:53

Mist, 2026
Mixed media
Variable dimensions

3. Detail - ‘Animations', 2022-2023

4. Detail - 'Irregularity (sit up)', 2026

Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts

Photography: Damian Griffiths

@ontarioartscouncil

LA Timpa
Come Back
12-6pm, Thurs-Sun
Until May 3rd

Images:

1. ‘Irregularity (sit up)', 2026
Mixed media
57 x 43 cm

2. ‘Animations', 2022-2023
Cassette tape recording and
single channel video
- Without shouting, 4:58
- Patience, 3:05
- It’s ok to burn it to the pot, 3:52
- Moving, 5:45
- Passing up, 3:43
- Gal’s, 3:53

Mist, 2026
Mixed media
Variable dimensions

3. Detail - ‘Animations', 2022-2023

4. Detail - 'Irregularity (sit up)', 2026

Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts

Photography: Damian Griffiths

@ontarioartscouncil

LA Timpa
Come Back

Circle, 2019
4:47, single channel video

LA Timpa resists clarity, relying instead on the rawness of the world he encounters, constantly reshaped by whatever lies ahead. His approach to constructing sound and narrative becomes a way of practicing presence.

The exhibition opens with the moving-image work Circle (2019), a video capturing fragments of family life. Shot on the artist’s phone and woven into a deliberately patchwork fiction, it traces a world both intimate and elusive. Timpa works with what surrounds him, treating real-world sounds as raw material; walking, recording, and reshaping them into something new. In listening back, he deciphers what has just occurred and what has been made, describing 'Circle' as “a former American spy readjusting to life in society and reconnecting with his daughter.”

Timpa’s practice drifts closer to painting than narrative. Sounds and images gather, overlap, and unfold, forming shapes that arrive quietly, finding a coherence in their own terms.

Open Thursday- Sunday
12-6pm until - 3rd May

Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts

Photography: Damian Griffiths

LA Timpa
Come Back

Circle, 2019
4:47, single channel video

LA Timpa resists clarity, relying instead on the rawness of the world he encounters, constantly reshaped by whatever lies ahead. His approach to constructing sound and narrative becomes a way of practicing presence.

The exhibition opens with the moving-image work Circle (2019), a video capturing fragments of family life. Shot on the artist’s phone and woven into a deliberately patchwork fiction, it traces a world both intimate and elusive. Timpa works with what surrounds him, treating real-world sounds as raw material; walking, recording, and reshaping them into something new. In listening back, he deciphers what has just occurred and what has been made, describing 'Circle' as “a former American spy readjusting to life in society and reconnecting with his daughter.”

Timpa’s practice drifts closer to painting than narrative. Sounds and images gather, overlap, and unfold, forming shapes that arrive quietly, finding a coherence in their own terms.

Open Thursday- Sunday
12-6pm until - 3rd May

Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts

Photography: Damian Griffiths

LA Timpa
Come Back

Circle, 2019
4:47, single channel video

LA Timpa resists clarity, relying instead on the rawness of the world he encounters, constantly reshaped by whatever lies ahead. His approach to constructing sound and narrative becomes a way of practicing presence.

The exhibition opens with the moving-image work Circle (2019), a video capturing fragments of family life. Shot on the artist’s phone and woven into a deliberately patchwork fiction, it traces a world both intimate and elusive. Timpa works with what surrounds him, treating real-world sounds as raw material; walking, recording, and reshaping them into something new. In listening back, he deciphers what has just occurred and what has been made, describing 'Circle' as “a former American spy readjusting to life in society and reconnecting with his daughter.”

Timpa’s practice drifts closer to painting than narrative. Sounds and images gather, overlap, and unfold, forming shapes that arrive quietly, finding a coherence in their own terms.

Open Thursday- Sunday
12-6pm until - 3rd May

Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts

Photography: Damian Griffiths

LA Timpa
Come Back

Circle, 2019
4:47, single channel video

LA Timpa resists clarity, relying instead on the rawness of the world he encounters, constantly reshaped by whatever lies ahead. His approach to constructing sound and narrative becomes a way of practicing presence.

The exhibition opens with the moving-image work Circle (2019), a video capturing fragments of family life. Shot on the artist’s phone and woven into a deliberately patchwork fiction, it traces a world both intimate and elusive. Timpa works with what surrounds him, treating real-world sounds as raw material; walking, recording, and reshaping them into something new. In listening back, he deciphers what has just occurred and what has been made, describing 'Circle' as “a former American spy readjusting to life in society and reconnecting with his daughter.”

Timpa’s practice drifts closer to painting than narrative. Sounds and images gather, overlap, and unfold, forming shapes that arrive quietly, finding a coherence in their own terms.

Open Thursday- Sunday
12-6pm until - 3rd May

Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts

Photography: Damian Griffiths

LA Timpa
'Mouth Face Forehead' 2026
Mixed media
120 x 120 x 60cm

Part of the artist's solo exhibition 'Come Back' Open 12-6pm, Thurs-Sun
@l.a.timpa

~ Through repair, adaptation, and processes oferasure and production, Timpa’s work carries traces of improvisation, that reflect tensions between fragility and resilience. Drawing on personal narratives and shaped by precarity, the work extends to broader reflections on exile and return. ~

Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts

Photography: Damian Griffiths

LA Timpa
'Mouth Face Forehead' 2026
Mixed media
120 x 120 x 60cm

Part of the artist's solo exhibition 'Come Back' Open 12-6pm, Thurs-Sun
@l.a.timpa

~ Through repair, adaptation, and processes oferasure and production, Timpa’s work carries traces of improvisation, that reflect tensions between fragility and resilience. Drawing on personal narratives and shaped by precarity, the work extends to broader reflections on exile and return. ~

Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts

Photography: Damian Griffiths

LA Timpa
'Mouth Face Forehead' 2026
Mixed media
120 x 120 x 60cm

Part of the artist's solo exhibition 'Come Back' Open 12-6pm, Thurs-Sun
@l.a.timpa

~ Through repair, adaptation, and processes oferasure and production, Timpa’s work carries traces of improvisation, that reflect tensions between fragility and resilience. Drawing on personal narratives and shaped by precarity, the work extends to broader reflections on exile and return. ~

Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts

Photography: Damian Griffiths

LA Timpa
'Mouth Face Forehead' 2026
Mixed media
120 x 120 x 60cm

Part of the artist's solo exhibition 'Come Back' Open 12-6pm, Thurs-Sun
@l.a.timpa

~ Through repair, adaptation, and processes oferasure and production, Timpa’s work carries traces of improvisation, that reflect tensions between fragility and resilience. Drawing on personal narratives and shaped by precarity, the work extends to broader reflections on exile and return. ~

Supported by Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts

Photography: Damian Griffiths