--- title: November at Unit London --- With a debut by Khanyisile Mbongwa, curator of the 2023 Liverpool Biennial, The Sun Never Sets is an expansive online project that explores the enduring effects of the British Empire from the perspectives of its former colonies. | View in browser ONLINE EXHIBITION, VOICES THE SUN NEVER SETS Zul’bambe Linga’shoni 15 Nov – 18 Dec   The Sun Never Sets is an expansive online project that explores the enduring effects of the British Empire from the perspectives of its former colonies.   It debuts in southern Africa with a group exhibition conceived by Khanyisile Mbongwa, curator of the 2023 Liverpool Biennial. Zul’bambe Linga’shoni takes its title and signal from an isiXhosa gwijo that is sung during an initiation or rite of passage ceremonies.The exhibiting artists were invited to delve into the archival collection of the British Museum and select objects that resonate with their own work.   "This exhibition is an experiment, framed in the ethos of igwijo’s call and response. I called and the artists responded; the artists called and the archive responded. I hope that you can find a thread in the continuum that is a mirror, that you are brave enough to look at yourself through it and to do the work it asks you to do."   – Khanyisile Mbongwa, Curator   Participating artists: Breeze Yoko, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Indira Mateta, Manyaku Mashilo, Matty Monethi, Nothando Chiwanga, Omba Arts Trust, Ozhopé Collective, Sisonke Papu, Thandolwethu Mamba EXPLORE NOW OPEN NOW, LONDON MIGUEL ÁNGEL PAYANO JR. Limbguistics Until 19 Dec   Now open in our Mayfair space, Limbguistics draws on Payano’s transcontinental experiences and interest in different modes of communication. Understanding language as the medium of a culture, conveying intangible values and traditions, the exhibition extends this vernacular to visual art, creating a body of work that considers shared human experience. The series of multimedia artworks interweave painting, collage and relief sculpture in a trompe l’oeil effect: hands, feet and tree branches protrude from the confines of each picture plane.   To coincide with Payano's debut London solo exhibition, we are honoured to announce the artist’s first institutional solo exhibition in China at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, as part of the museum’s newly published 2024 programme. The solo exhibition will feature alongside major institutional surveys of Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lawrence Weiner and Luc Tuymans, among others. EXPLORE NOW ONLINE EXHIBITION, WEB3 AFTER GINSBERG by theVERSEverse Until 12 Dec   Minting is now live for our online exhibition in partnership with the Allen Ginsberg Estate, presenting AI generated poetry in conjunction with limited edition physical prints of the photographs which inspired them.   In the spirit of Ginsberg’s avant-garde writing, theVERSEverse, employed artificial intelligence to translate his historical photographs into novel poetic texts, informed by his own words, observations and imagination. VIEW NOW IN THE PRESS JESS ALLEN Enuma Okoro for the Financial Times   “I find the work of the Cornwall-based artist Jess Allen powerfully evocative. Her canvases are filled with shadows of people or objects, bringing to mind roaming thoughts of everything that our lives are filled with, as well as a recognition of the absences.”   View Allen’s work in our recent Voices online group exhibition, Homebodies, and stay tuned for Allen's debut solo exhibition at the gallery in 2024. READ MORE NOW OPEN, MANCHESTER STEPHEN WONG AT ESEA CONTEMPORARY esea Showcase Until 30 Nov   For its inaugural edition, esea contemporary showcases a new painting by Hong Kong-based artist Stephen Wong. The Mountain Carrier in a Storm features Wong’s distinctive vivid palette and dreamlike landscapes.   "Facing a lot of challenges and difficulties in recent years in Hong Kong, I conceived an image of a Mountain Carrier sailing through a formidable storm, as a metaphor."   – Stephen Wong LEARN MORE NOW OPEN, NEW YORK PAA JOE AT ARSENAL CONTEMPORARY Real Fake Door, curated by Oli Epp and Mollie E Barnes Until 16 Dec   The works in Real Fake Door challenge conventional norms of perception and understanding and transport the audience to uncharted territories. Paa Joe’s paragon, the miniature coffin, serves as a portal bridging the realms of life and death.   View more of the artist's work in our past group exhibition, In the Round. LEARN MORE Unit London, 3 Hanover Square, Mayfair, London W1S 1HD, United Kingdom, +44 (0) 20 7494 2035 Unsubscribe Manage preferences GIF 1: Image 1: Manyaku Mashilo, Dithapelo Tsa boMma, 2022, Acrylic, ink on canvas, 150 x 300 x 2 cm. Image courtesy Southern Guild. Image 2: Nothando Chiwanga, The color nation (detail), 2022, Photography on archival paper, 59.44 x 84.07 cm. Image courtesy the artist. Image 3: Group of adult males standing in a row, wearing feather head-dresses and fur round calves, holding knobkerries or sticks, Gelatin silver print, 5.95 x 10.4 cm © The Trustees of the British Museum. GIF 2: Installation Views, Miguel Ángel Payano Jr., Limbguistics at Unit London, 2023. GIF 3: Gif 1: Image 1: Allen Ginsberg, Heroic Portrait of Jack Kerouac on Fire Escape, New York, 1953, Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 25. Image 2: theVERSEverse, The Escape, 2023, NFT, Edition of 4. Image 3: Allen Ginsberg, Calcutta Self Portrait with Peter Orlovsky, October 20, 1962, Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 25. Image 4: theVERSEverse, Shared Reflections: A Snapshot, 2023, NFT, Edition of 4. Image 5: Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, 1953, Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 25. Image 6: theVERSEverse, Metropolitan Whispers, 2023, NFT, Edition of 4. Image 7: Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Amina Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Rashidah Ismaili, and friends, Small Press Book Fair, December 2, 1990, Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 25. Image 8: theVERSEverse, Book Song, 2023, NFT, Edition of 4. Image 9: Allen Ginsberg, Alene Lee, immortalized as Mardou Fox in Kerouac’s “The Subterraneans”, rooftop near Tompkins Park & Paradise Alley, 1953, Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 25. Image 10: theVERSEverse, Ballard of the Rooftop Angel, 2023, NFT, Edition of 4. Image 11: Allen Ginsberg, Berenice Abbott, May 14, 1985, Archival Pigment Print, Edition of 25. Image 12: theVERSEverse, A Meditation in Maine, 2023, NFT, Edition of 4. All images © Allen Ginsberg, Courtesy of Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles.Image 1: Jess Allen in the studio. Courtesy of the artist. Image 2: Installation view of Stephen Wong at esea contemporary, 2023. GIF 4: Installation views of Paa Joe at Arsenal Contemporary, 2023. All image courtesy of Unit Londoon.      | | --- |