07/07/2026
🥳: PV Thursday 9th July 6-9pm
🎭: Performance by Teo Ala-Ruona & Collaborators 9th July at 7:30-8pm
📆: Exhibition 10th July - 15th August 2026, Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 6pm
📍: Seventeen, 270-276 Kingsland Rd, Entrance on Acton Mews, London, E8 4DG, UK
Assembled by Joey Holder
With special thanks to Julia Greenway
Text by Philip Speakman
Artists:
Teo Ala-Ruona & Collaborators
John Humphreys
Mike Kelley
Zein Majali
Paul McCarthy
Chino Moya
Anna Mikkola
Benjamin Orlow
Jaakko Pallasvuo
Anni Puolakka
Joel Slotte
Ausgang Studio
Viktor Timofeev
Performance: Rea-Matere by Teo Ala-Ruona & Collaborators
Rea-Matere is a staging of a body as the stage, in acts that are caught between the inescapable room inside and the inescapable one outside. A room that seems to precede and exceed the figure that speaks.
Rea-Matere continues Ala-Ruona’s study into how conceptions of the body, inside and out, become neutralised and subject to the violation of language and its unending mechanisms. At its centre is a performer practice that moves, voices, and undergoes metaphysical transformation, while desiring to empty itself.
The material is part of an ongoing development of body practice and stage work in dialogue with dancer Mina Tomic, culminating in a production called Damnat, premiering at Zodiak Center for New Dance, Helsinki, in May 2027. The working group of Rea-Matere also includes sound designer Tuuka Haapakorpi, stage and costume designer Teo Paaer and producer Sanna Rityanen.
Image: Teo Ala-Ruona & collaborators: Rea-Matere, Hunajanjyyä 2026, photo by Rober Ra.
The exhibition and performance are generously supported by The Finnish Institute UK & Ireland, Zodiak Center for New Dance, Taike, FRAME Finland and Kordelin.
Taiteen edistämiskeskus Alfred Kordelinin säätiö Frame Contemporary Art Finland Teo Ala-Ruona cc0cc_@sarakarpanen John Humphreys @anna_mikkola Benjamin Orlow Jaakko Mallasmaa annipuolakka Joel Slotte Galerie Anhava Ausgang Comunicação,studio Viktor[s] Timofe[j]ev[s]] Timofe[j]ev[s]
Philip Speakman
