Studio More Than One – comprised of the current students of the MA Curating Contemporary Design in partnership with the Design Museum at Kingston University – and artist Nadia Guerroui invite you to their day-long workshop, The First Healed Bone, at Stanley Picker Gallery’s Project Studio on 14 March 2025 11am – 5pm.
Participants are invited to create small text-based art pieces which speak to themes of reconciliation, both real and imagined. Studio More Than One is a group of curators from diverse backgrounds, including architecture, design and arts & culture, dedicated to amplifying diverse voices and stories. Our work focuses on designing space for reconciliation between, but not limited to, people, places and identities.
The First Healed Bone – a workshop with the artist Nadia Guerroui – forms the beginnings of and
research for the exhibition More Than One Way to be Home, which will explore reconciliation in a
variety of formats that will work independently as well as interdependently. The introspective and
communal nature of poetry provides the audience with the opportunity for reconciliation through
conversation and contemplation. The meditative practice of reading, writing and reflecting has the
potential to release tension—a method of enabling catharsis. From Barbara Krueger to Apparatus
22, poetry has been a staple in social change. Inherent in the methodology is the expectation of
performance exchanges. This material exploration is a gentle unravelling of the complicated
discomforts that are often brought about through the process of reconciliation.
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Biography
Nadia Guerroui‘s (1988, Toulouse, France) work is an ongoing oscillation between multiplicity and
void. The artist herself has a background in textiles, and her work could be defined as an
investigation into the transformation of material under the influence of light, nature, and time. The
simplicity of form in her work itself becomes an aesthetic quality, and some pieces could be called
reflexive or self-referential. Guerroui was selected for the Coming People Prize at S.M.A.K.
Museum (Ghent, Belgium) in 2014. She has also exhibited at KM 21 Kunstmuseum (The Hague,
Netherlands) and became the laureate of the Vordemberge-Gildewart Award in 2020. Her work has
been included amongst others at CAB Fondation (BE), Dhondt-Dhaenens Museum (BE), PS
Project Space (NL), Spring/Break Art Show (US), La Centrale Art Center (BE), Le Consulat (FR),
Bozar – Palais des Beaux Arts (BE), Kunstenfestival Watou (BE), Cloud Seven Fondation (BE),
Belfius Art Collection (BE), Resonance of Biennale de Lyon (FR), Cultuurcentrum Strombeek (BE),
Tale of A Tub (NL), Villa Empain – Boghossian Fondation (BE). In 2020 S.M.A.K. Museum (BE) commissioned Otium, an outdoor installation in a Park in Menen (BE). In 2022 Cloud Seven Fondation (BE) commissioned Otium – Brussels’ Clouds, a permanent outdoor installation on the rooftop of the fondation. Her recent personal/duo exhibitions include: More Than You Could Ever Know (Around Video, Brussels, Belgium 2023), Helene Appel >< Nadia Guerroui (OV Project, Brussels, Belgium, 2023), The Other Sleeps in All Things Around (Wonnerth Dejaco Gallery, Vienna Austria, 2021), Card Draw (Parallel Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 2019), Palimpsest (Art Institute Shibukawa Gallery, Shibukawa, Japan, 2018), Blink (DAC, Dolceaqua, Italy, 2017) and Impostor Syndrom (SNAP Projects Gallery, Lyon, France, 2016).
Studio More Than One is a group of curators from diverse backgrounds, including architecture, design and arts & culture, dedicated to amplifying diverse voices and stories. Our work focuses on designing space for reconciliation between, but not limited to, people, places and identities. They are currently studying on the MA Curating Contemporary Design in partnership with the Design Museum at Kingston University.
