Sugar

Title: Sugar 

Medium: Spraypainted paper, boxes with magnets x100 - 12 Photographs

The work is interactive, allowing the viewer to shift and move the boxes, mimicking real sugar stacks in the grocery store. The sugar itself is a subject of discussion: its tax, price, health effects, and its use in the products we consume. The boxes are blue and white, and the whiteboard is used for a board meeting where the sugar can be moved in an abstract format, create a chart, or become something else the viewer decides. 

ALL CAPITALS 

Hypha Gallery South Bank, 42 Southwark Bridge Rd, London, SE1 9EU

PV 25th June 2026 6-9pm

26th June - 26 July 2026 

Exhibition open Thursday - Sunday 12pm - 6pm (or by appointment contact adjacentartists@gmail.com)

Featuring: Breeze Bee, Monika Drabot, Eric Fei, Jonathan Hadari, Sarah Hopper, Wesley Power, Nikita Savostyanov, Lydia Seaman, Jacob Sirkin, Philip Steele, Carter Tam, Daniel Rhys Wakefield, George Wigley and Minghao Wu

Curated by Jonathan Hadari, Sarah Hopper and Lydia Seaman

Southwark is the geographic background of the exhibition’s location providing a framework for themes of layered histories running alongside and over each other, ideas of breakage and rebuilding. ALL CAPITALS takes this landscape of accumulated history as both backdrop and material. 

The show takes a reference from ‘The City of Clarice’ in Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, a city that repeatedly collapses and is rebuilt from fragments of its past. Each iteration gestures toward a future that never quite fits.

Fourteen early career artists working primarily with sculpture, installation and audio visual pieces have been invited to engage with themes of shifting value systems and changing attitudes. The body is explored through voice and performances that encourage community engagement. The city’s fabric exhibits humanity’s continual process at attempted erasure followed by reimagining or repurposing of its remnants. 

The space itself, once data and finance offices, now functions as an art gallery, evidence of the evolution of architectural usage. Our city's infrastructures have been developed to facilitate systems of economy and trade, the proximity to the river Thames a reminder of the international passage of goods and people into and out of the city. 

The artists work with material as varied as foam, hair, clay, discarded metal, blue shirts, river silt. The gallery is a place to rehearse and inhabit with works that speak to the nature of the precarious and unstable and yet not in a way that despairs but by embracing chance and play. The collision of materials, practices and ways of being encourages collaboration. 

We understand the gallery as an open ground. Works will be activated across its run, visitors are invited to keep returning. Throughout the month there will be talks by Malcolm Russell (Mudlark’d) and Lucy Coleman Talbot (Crossbones Graveyard, ‘Little Book of Maudism’) as well as workshops, interventions, artist-led talks and discussions. 

Public Programme:

Carter Tam and their co-collaborators will run an ongoing craft workshop exploring themes of personal identity through the making of rosettes.

Crossbones Graveyard academic Lucy Coleman Talbot will host a talk and group walk from the Hypha site to the Graveyard. Discussing themes that arise from a city's hidden histories. 

Mudlark Malcolm Russell will give a talk: Histories from a Chaotic Archive, explaining how he uses his finds from the shores of the Thames as inspiration for histories that reveal forgotten fears and fantasies which destabilise dominant accounts of Britain’s past.

There will be artist led discussions as well as singing workshops and collaborative interventions.