Private View:
June 19th from 18.00 to 21.00 RSVP essential
Open to public:
11.00 - 18.00 from 20th - June 23rd / Friday until 19.30
Location: Royal College of Art, Studio Building, Howie Street
©2024 CHORUS OF CONTACT, ALL RIGHTS RESERVEDCuratorial Team
Luis Andrés López García
Archive / Website / Install
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Jacqueline Schwartz
Install/ Artist Liaison/ Mediation/ Production
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Fiona Xie
Production/ Project management/ Install
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Katerina Matheson
Install / Art Direction/ Graphic Design/ Mediation/ Artist Liaison
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Viktoria Stepanets
PR/ Production
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Shiyan Wang
Documentation/ Budget
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Margaret Liang
Documentation
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Luis Andrés López García
Quito-Ecuador (1996). He is a visual artist, archivist, and independent curator. He completed the BA Contemporary Arts from the USFQ (2018) with a minor in Art History and the postgraduate diploma in Art Applied to Society from Überbau_house (2021). He participated in the HABEAS DATA VI residency for Contemporary Art Research (2019). He is currently pursuing the MA Curating Contemporary Art at the RCA (2024). He was the mediation assistant for the NAW exhibition parallel to the XIV Cuenca Biennial (2018). He curated exhibitions at El Domo (Fretless Foundation), Chawpi, No Lugar, Puente Art Lab, Khôra, Espacio Violenta (Guayaquil), Cumandá Urban Park and the Contemporary Art Center of Quito.
Margaret Liang
(b.1998) is an artist/photographer based in London. Having resided in different countries growing up, Margaret derives her artistic voice from an auto-theoretical lens, from her experience of being a woman and a woman of colour. She adopts performative portraits and self-portraits as her primary means of practice. Her subject matters include intersectional feminism, gender and the asian diaspora. Education: Masters Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art, 2023-2024; Master of Arts, Royal College of Art, 2021-2023; Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2017-2020
Katerina Matheson
Is a London based curator, actively producing personal and collaborative projects alongside her curatorial role at SHAKE GALLERY. In her previous role at Looking Forward C.I.C, Kat developed the 'Screening Room Programme' (2021), which she also evolved into the 'Deptford Film Club' (2021-2022), a series of live screening and Q&A events involving international/ local artists and local communities. Royal College of Art, MA Curating Contemporary Art, 2023-2024;
Goldsmiths College, BA History of art and Fine art, 2018-2021.
Jacqueline Schwartz
Is a London-based curator focusing on public programming in cultural institutions. She holds a degree in Museum Studies and History from UCSB and is currently researching for her MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art. Jacqueline has worked in collaboration with many arts-based organisations, including roles at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Olympia Auctions, Gazelli Art House, Hoxton Radio, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara. She also co-founded Entheoscope Magazine, serving as Chief Content Curator since 2021. Her practice blends roles as researcher, artist, host, and mediator, using her background in anticolonial museum theory to critique Western cultural institutions and connect academia with practical discourse.
Viktoria Stepanets
Ukraine (1993). She is an independent curator, currently pursuing the MA Curating Contemporary Art programme at RCA, London, UK. Victoria completed the BA Marketing and advertising from the Trade and Economy University in Kyiv, Ukraine (2015), and the MA Multimedia journalism from the Higher School of Economics. She also studied International relations at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland (2022). Victoria initiated and curated the Genesis project in Prague, Czech Republic (2019) with the support of the MFA of Ukraine, launched and managed the Culture trend art magazine in Ukraine (2018-22), as well as the Art masters project in Ukraine and Western Europe. She is currently actively engaged in co-curating various art exhibitions in London.
Fiona Xie
(2001) Is a London-based artist who works mainly in Fine Art. Experimenting with mediums during the process of producing conceptually-led work and curatorial projects. She realized any form of art is an expression of individuals and, hence, a way of communication among all societies and cultures. Fiona is developing her role in art both as an artist and curator. Education:
Royal College of Art- MA Curating. Contemporary Art (2024).
University of the Arts London- BA Fine Art (2019-2022).
Shiyuan Wang
(b.1999) Is an artist and independent curator currently pursuing a Master's degree at the Royal College of Art in the UK. Her creation and curation are deeply influenced by postmodernism and the theatricality of art. She has curated several acclaimed exhibitions at the DEJI Art Museum and the Shanghai Powerlong Museum. Her experiences living and working across different countries have enhanced her ability to understand and present the interactions of diverse cultures in her curation. She is dedicated to transforming exhibition spaces into multidimensional narrative realms through technologies like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Awarded for "Innovative Exhibition Design," she continually explores new possibilities to provide audiences with profound and meaningful art experiences.