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Jebi Labembika
I’m a Cameroonian born artist currently living in London. My childhood in Cameroon and entrance to adulthood in London is an aesthetic collaboration of both these experiences and holds a strong political narrative. Inspired by all things new and old, my work is also looking to question our reality, Creating new ideas and constantly refusing to conform to societies standards of knowledge. My west Africa upbringing is very apparent in my work as it is always looking to grow and expand the general understanding of west Africa art and its importance to the world. Through photography, style, performance, and film. I want the audience to not only enter my world but to create their own. Trauma manifests itself in various aspects of my work. Confronting the guilt of not being able to record memories as a child in Cameroon combined with the traumatising conflict of being faced with the western consideration of ‘black art’. To be pushed in such a box not only tokenises black artists but restricts them to an aesthetic that is not all telling what inspires me is the memories that I never got to capture.

Verane
Congolese/London based artist. Work emerges in the interdisciplinary space of art, poetry, and social practice. The body of work evokes and explores human condition and geopolitical aspect, in a form of visual element, to provoke social comment.

SCATTSMAN
Scattsman is a shrine. Shrines connect us to our past, to each other, and to something greater than ourselves. They serve to help us remember and to heal. SCATTSMAN will present a compilation of videos ultimately creating a portal to an elevated state of awareness by sporadic storytelling via music, comedy, spoken word, pain and paintings; mostly from the inside looking in.

Alpha Maid
Alpha Maid (aka Leisha Thomas) is a guitarist and producer from South East London who crafts compositions heavily drawing from lo-fi punk, noise and glitch electronics. Also a member of CURL collective, who she occasionally joins for live shows. She released her debut EP, Spy, via their label in 2019. Her most recent release is second EP ‘CHUCKLE’ released in March 2021 via the collective and label C.A.N.V.A.S.

Cõvco
Cõvco’s practice is grounded in theatrics and curiosity. what it looks like with discipline, her linear journey in spirituality and befriending social taboos through sound and performance .. she seeks clarity in meaning, in being human beyond mans perspective but through spiritual prospect which will be presented in new works Rinse + Spin blue.