Autograph, London

Our Bodies Have Been Bridges:
Artist Talk

Thursday 8 October || 6:30-7:30pm

£5

Join us at Autograph's gallery for a discussion considering land, body and memory

Address

Autograph
Rivington Place
London EC2A 3BA, UK

Tickets

Tickets for this event launch on 24 August. Register with Eventbrite to receive a notification when tickets launch

ABOUT THE Event

Autograph's new exhibition Our Bodies Have Been Bridges offers multiple perspectives on indigenous, diasporic feminist practices - affirming both the body and memory as active, generative forces. Exploring the branching paths of tracing lost origins, Tarrah Krajank's El Jardin de Senderos que se Bifurcan navigates the intersection of personal and collective historyIn Koyoltzintli's series Meda, the artist asks, How do you think your oldest ancestors would touch this land?  Together, the artist's work is rooted in matrilineal lineages and gendered politics, inseparable from political and cultural realities.

The discussion will be chaired by Bindi Vora, Senior Curator at Autograph and curator of Our Bodies Have Been Bridges, bringing together these intersecting perspectives to explore how artists use lens-based practices to reclaim histories, sustain ancestral knowledge, and imagine liberatory futures.

The ticket price for this event is £5. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If this ticket price is unaffordable for you, please get in touch with Harriet at harriet@autograph-abp.co.uk about free ticketing options.

Speakers

Koyoltzintli

Koyoltzintli (born 1983, New York City, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in Ulster County, New York. She was raised on the Pacific coast and in the Andean mountains of Ecuador. Her work revolves around sound, ancestral technologies, ritual, and storytelling, blending collaborative processes with personal narratives.

She is interested in a sensitive, intuitive approach to documentary style photography, unravelling the tension between the obscuring and unveiling of identity, knowing and unknowing, desire and fear.

Minnicucci studied Fine Art Film and Video at Central St. Martins. She is Head of Photography at Thomas Tallis School in south east London.

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Tarrah Krajnak

Tarrah Krajnak (born 1979, Lima, Peru) is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles. She is an Associate Professor of Art at UCLA, and is represented by Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne.

Krajnak is the recipient of the 2025 Henri Cartier-Bresson Creation Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Louis Roederer Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles, and the Dorothea Lange- Paul Taylor Prize among others. She has published three books including El Jardín De Senderos Que Se Bifurcan (DAIS 2021), Master Rituals II: Weston's Nudes (TBW 2022) and RePose (FW Books 2023).

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Chaired by

Bindi Vora

Bindi Vora is an interdisciplinary artist of Kenyan-Indian heritage, associate lecturer at LCC and senior curator at Autograph, London. She interested in how ideas of resistance and resilience are shaped by our surroundings, histories and lived experiences.

Her practice often combines glyphs and an archive of personal and found photographs procured over the last decade to draw on the intersections between language, culture and their inherent power dynamics.

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Part of the exhibition

Our Bodies Have Been Bridges

Free Exhibition
How does the body carry personal and collective memory?

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YOUR VISIT

Everyone is welcome at Autograph. Planning a visit? Have a look at our Visit Us page to find out more about getting to the gallery, accessibility and more.

SAFETY MEASURES

Accessible VEnue

Autograph welcomes people with all types of disabilities.

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Step free

Our building and entrance is step free. A wheelchair accessible lift goes to all floors.

Location

The discussion will be seated and will take place in Gallery 1, on the ground floor.

Limited tickets

This event takes place in the gallery, there are limited tickets to ensure the best experience.

ticketing policy

The ticket price for this event is £5. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If this ticket price is unaffordable for you please get in touch at info@autograph-abp.co.uk about free ticketing options.

Autograph's events are popular, and often sell out. We recommend booking a ticket in advance. If you need to cancel your ticket for any reason, you can receive a refund up to 24 hours before the start of the event. You do not need to bring your paper ticket to the event.



Exhibition supported by

Banner image: Koyoltzintli, Obsidian Woman, 2019. From the series Meda. Courtesy the artist.

Images on page: Speakers: 1-3) Courtesy the speakers.
4): Autograph, London. Photograph by Kate Elliott.