Upcoming
7.3 – 12.4 2025
Adua
3–5 Swallow Street
Adua
07.03 – 12.04.2025
Includes:BiswellSiagama Siagama–
Upcoming
Hours
Monday to Friday, 10:00am – 5:30pm
Saturday, 1:30pm – 5:30pm
Gallery
3–5 Swallow Street
London
W1B 4DE
Untitled (2025). Maria Amilbia Siagama Siagama
Signos en Rotación (2022). Karen Paulina Biswell
Huxley-Parlour are delighted to announce Adua, an exhibition of works by Colombian artist Karen Paulina Biswell and Colombian Embera-Chami artist and cultural guardian Maria Amilbia Siagama Siagama at our Swallow Street gallery in March 2025. The exhibition, the title of which means I don’t know in the Embera language, will present a series of mixed-media works including photography, textile pieces, and works on paper from the artists’ ongoing collaboration. Together, their work explores the intersections of identity, ritual, and healing.
Includes: Karen Paulina Biswell, Maria Amilbia Siagama Siagama
Signos en Rotación (2022). Karen Paulina Biswell
Place is an integral site of inquiry to Biswell and Siagama Siagama’s collaboration; the Brugmansia Insignis (iguaka) plant, native to Central and South America, is a significant point of departure for their combined practice, and a recurring motif throughout the works in the exhibition. In Embera-Chami culture, the flower plays a sacred role in rituals. When ingested, its hallucinogenic effects are believed to allow the consumer to pass back and forth from the underworld; new understandings of reality, operating through a process of knowing and forgetting, are triggered which reveal a more harmonious mode of existence, attuned to the ecosphere. Using the iguaka plant as an emblem, the artists point to the fractious relationship between the land and ancient traditions and the socio-political realities of Colombia. Invoking the natural landscape, Biswell and Siagama Siagama offer a narrative of transformation and locate a hopefulness in the principles of reciprocity.