A group exhibition by Reem Acason, Debbie Antonowicz, Vix Koch & Devon McCulloch

20–22 March | Unit 2, St Leonards-on-Sea 

Private View: Friday 20 March, 6–9pm Open: Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 March 10am-4pm

Displacement brings together four artists whose practices converge around experiences of migration, familial absence, fragmentation, and the condition of being out of place. Through installation, painting, photography, collage, print, and sculptural intervention, the exhibition holds space for what is lost, carried, and remade when people and places come apart.

Reem Acason sifts through recollections, family stories, and inherited objects, re-examining fragments of a dual Bahraini-British heritage shaped by diaspora and dislocation. Working with personally, culturally or socially symbolic meanings including oil painting, wax, sand, gypsum and vintage objects, each piece acts as a relic to be deciphered; personal archaeology of lost language and shifting geography. Debbie Antonowicz creates installations and paintings that navigate displacement as both a physical and psychological territory, where familiar forms become unfamiliar ground. Vix Koch works within the framework of hauntology, layering lens-based media with sculptural interventions to create works haunted by familial absence, lost futures, and the charged residue of place. Devon McCulloch fuses historical documents, X-rays, and institutional records into cyanotypes, sculptures, and laser-etched prints, interrogating how bureaucratic relics shape, limit, and define identity across time, family, and state.

“Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home.” — Edward Said, Reflections on Exile

Displacement is not presented here as a single experience but as a set of conditions — geographical, emotional, material — that each artist navigates through their own distinct practice.

The exhibition opens with a private view on Friday 20 March, 6–9pm, and is free and open to all across the weekend.