26/05/2026
This Thursday, 6–8 PM, join us for the opening of The desert wind will salt your ruins, a group exhibition featuring Mila Rae Sarabhai, Yijia Wu, and Dzina (Dinka) Liaonava, curated by Ania Kaczynska.
The exhibition inaugurates KRUPA’s programme for London Gallery Weekend 2026.
As part of the programme, we are also pleased to invite you to Two Houses, a performance by Yijia Wu taking place on Saturday, 6 June at 4 PM.
RSVP for the performance via the link in bio.
We look forward to welcoming you to the exhibition and the performance throughout the weekend.
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In this performance, artist Yijia Wu stages two parallel acts of making and unmaking to explore the shaping of memory.
A small house carved from soap is slowly washed away in a tank of water, its edges softening until the form dissolves completely, leaving only a faint cloud of residue suspended in the water. Alongside it, a block of stone is gradually filed into the shape of a house, the form emerging through subtraction as fine stone dust falls and disperses into the water.
Through these mirrored processes of erosion and shaping, Wu reflects on the intertwined acts of remembering and forgetting. As one house dissolves into liquid traces and the other slowly takes form through labour and time, the work asks: what shape does memory take? Is it defined by what remains, or by what disappears?
What lingers are shifting residues, particles, clouds, and sediments. Inviting reflection on how memory, like home, may dissolve, reform, and be continually reimagined through the materials that carry its traces. The work also reflects the artist’s experience of living across countries, where building new memories in one place can gradually blur the memories once lived in another, much like forms that dissolve into water or slowly emerge through the patient labour of shaping stone.
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KRUPA
29 May – 11 July 2026
Wed–Sat, 12 - 6 PM
1 Pakenham St, WC1X 0LA
