• Teatro Grottesco presents Elizabeth Wright

    15.01.2026 — 25.01.2026
    Opening Thursday 15th January, 6-9pm
    16th–25th January 2026
    Thursday–Sunday, 12-6pm
     
    New works and selected works from 1994–1998
     
    Teatro Grottesco presents works by Elizabeth Wright in Cell Project Space’s reading room, adjoining office, and entryway. These intermedial spaces are used to situate the artist’s past and recent sculptures–copies of objects Wright has reduced in scale or compressed–within the everyday life of the gallery.
     
    Throughout the 1990s, the artist reprinted telephone directories from different countries at sizes slightly smaller than their originals. When first exhibited between 1994 and 1998, phone books were instantly recognisable staples of home and office environments; today, however, printed directories have become virtually obsolete as contact information has moved to digital formats. Displayed together for the first time, they are shown alongside new works made using the form of the aluminium can, either awaiting compression or decompressed using 3D digital modeling  to reverse engineer an already flattened state.
     
    “When asked to describe Teatro Grottesco, a representative replied, ‘You can never anticipate the Teatro – or anything else.’”
     
    Elizabeth Wright’s work as an artist /copyist includes Scale, Foundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain (2023); Found Cities, Lost Objects: Women in the City’ Birmingham Museum, UK (2022); Involuntary Works, Atelier Amden, Amden, Switzerland (2018); Self Organisation DIY Practice, Miró Foundatión, Barcelona, Spain (2017). Wright’s works are held in private and public collections, including Tate and Arts Council England.
     
    Teatro Grottesco, founded in Turin, Italy, and now based in Paris, France, is a self-proclaimed 'giallo' gallery. Previous project presentations in 2025 include Gavin Brown, Paris Internationale and Giorgio Sadotti, Basel Social Club. Exhibitions in 2025 were 'O VS. KIM' by Jesper List Thomsen;'A História da Arte', Essila Paraíso;  'Drinking the Language of Things', Beatrice Bonino; and 'TOUCHING ITSELF (THE INDISCERNIBLE INTIMACY, NOT DREAMY, INACTIVE OR SENTIMENTAL, NOT COMPLETE, ABANDON)’, Giorgio Sadotti.
     
    For all press and access related inquiries, please contact Annabelle Mödlinger: annabelle[at]cellprojects[dot]org.

  • LA Timpa

    Solo Exhibition

    27.02.2026 — 03.05.2026
    Opening Thursday 26th February, 6-9pm
    27th February–3rd May 2026
    Thursday–Sunday, 12-6pm
     
    Artist and musician, LA Timpa presents his first UK solo exhibition and a new body of work that extends his compositional practice into spatial form. Rooted in memory and lived experience, the installation considers how sound leaves its trace on physical matter, proposing sculpture as a resonant architecture through which histories are held, carried, and given agency.
     
    For this exhibition, Timpa summons unseen presences, reframing listening as an embodied, durational encounter. Drawing from personal narratives shaped by precarious living conditions, his work opens onto wider reflections on exile and return. Here, listening becomes a way of navigating the porous terrain between internal worlds and the material, social, and political structures that surround them.
     
    A provisional physical framework anchors the exhibition, functioning as both vessel and threshold. Within this environment, shifting layers of sound, intimate fragments, and silence form a sonic atmosphere that gestures toward the suspended rhythms of temporary occupation. Timpa’s commitment to old technologies such as cassette recorders, flip phones, and Super 8 cameras is both an emotional and political gesture. Their stubborn materiality resists the seamlessness of digital production, requiring sculptural handling and intentionality while remaining vulnerable to interruption and circumstance. Quotidian noise, punctuated with notes of silence, tests relational and social atmospheres, creating conditions that heighten receptive possibilities for listening.
     
    Curator Milika Muritu
     
    Born in Nigeria, Canadian artist LA Timpa lives and works between Ontario, New York and London. Solo exhibitions include; ‘I Got A New Joint: What I Should’nt Do With The Money’, curator Geraldine Tedder, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Switzerland (2025); ‘Sands’, Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Gavin Brown, Rome (2023); and ‘Prayer Call/ Infa’, a performance at Pinault Collection, Paris (2019). In 2025, 27 Seiten, Zurich, published his debut novella ‘A Destiny in Jeopardy’.
     
    Collaborations include; Principal in ‘Osanle’, a drama and dance by Klein, Southbank Centre Theatre, London; ‘’O’ Magic Power of Bleakness’ an audio/visual installation with Mark Leckey, Tate Modern, London; and with Beverly Glenn Copeland, Bush Hall, London. LA Timpa has been an international recording musician since 2016, releasing six solo albums; his more recent include IOX, with Relaxin Records (2025) and Time of Marcker with Vulgarteen (2024). As a musician Timpa has performed world-wide. Recent UK highlights include Institute of Contemporary Art, London in 2025 and PESTE, Manchester in 2024.
     
    For all press and access related inquiries, please contact Annabelle Mödlinger, annabelle[at]cellprojects[dot]org.
     
    With generous support from Ontario Arts Council Canada