The Mosaic Rooms in London hosted a busy and varied programme of events throughout August. The month saw the end of the summer exhibition My Sister Who Travels, a group show of six contemporary women artists focusing on the Mediterranean as a place that visually articulates concerns of memory, conflict, colonisation, migration, emptiness and expanse. The exhibition received good press coverage, with reviews in The National, Photomonitor, Rooms Magazine and ArtDaily – amongst others.
The public programme accompanying the exhibition saw a sold out supper club with celebrated chef and author Anissa Helou. Helou served a Syrian-inspired three-course meal celebrating the food from the region of the Levant. Other events included a special screening and London premier of Bryony Dunne’s film The Orchard Keepers and a launch of The Hidden Light of Objects, a collection of short stories by Kuwaiti writer Mai Al-Nakib.
In September the gallery presented two play readings by emerging Arab playwrights in collaboration with Sandpit Productions’ Bulbul Playwriting Competitions. The plays were The Cost of Eggs by Yamina Bakiri and Bitterenders by Hannah Khalil. There was also a special preview reading of Hassan Abdulrazzak’s new piece entitled The Tune is Always Better on the Outside. To close the summer programme The Mosaic Rooms presented Unmade Film, a special lecture performance and book launch by artist Uriel Orlow. Looking ahead the gallery is looking forward to hosting the first UK solo exhibition by Nadia Kaabi-Linke, opening on 10 October.