Dono: Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom & Harun Morrison

19 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Somerset House Studios

Before, During & After: Here Now (How To Keep The Balance) 2023-24, Installation View,
Photographer Jules Lister
Before, During & After: Here Now (How To Keep The Balance) 2023-24, Installation View, Photographer Jules Lister

Presenting new work by Somerset House Studios resident artists Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom and Harun Morrison.

Taking its title from an Akan Adinkra symbol and name for a double skin talking drum, Dono expands on the artists’ shared interest in sound, exploring untranslatable and non-linguistic forms as tools of meaning-making. A collaboration initiated by Somerset House Studios, and developed in dialogue with one another, Boakye-Yiadom and Morrison consider musical, linguistic and architectural forms of meaning-making, interrogating the boundaries of language.

Dono trials alternative forms of communication, considering the generative potential of repetition, concealment and misunderstanding. The exhibition is treated as a testing ground and rehearsal room, exploring how space and institutional structures shape our language, music and sociality.

Dono will be the latest work in the G31 project space, a space dedicated to the work of Somerset House Studios and its residency programmes – at all stages of development. G31 affords the opportunity to ‘look behind the curtain’ and to interact with the risk-taking work being made within the building. Open year round, G31 hosts a programme of installations and activities, many of which are free, as part of the wider Somerset House Studios programme.

Appau Jnr Boakye-Yiadom's work is produced with the support of Wysing Arts Centre, Modern Art Oxford, Somerset House Studios and South London Gallery as part of the Donna Lynas Residency

The exhibition opens to the public from Friday 19th July – Sunday 20th October 2024.

10.00 - 18.00 daily - FREE Entry

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