Niya B, Re:Rooted | Stanley Picker Gallery

Kingston School of Art PhD candidate Niya B presents Re:Rooted, an immersive exhibition exploring trans ecologies through multispecies kinship, ancestral plant relationships, and multi-gender futurities. Hosted in Stanley Picker Gallery’s Project Studio, the exhibition features a 360º VR video and a site-specific installation.

Re:Rooted welcomes friends, strangers, and fellow beings to join Niya, her companion species Aloe vera, her plantcestor Olea europaea (olive tree), digital entities, electronic devices, and the soil we all come from and will return to – humans, plants, and machines.

The exhibition opens with a special live activation on Wednesday 22 October, where Niya and her collaborators (Giulia Casalini, Dyana Gravina, n:u (melissandre varin), and Byuka Makodru) will engage in somatic performance rituals within the installation space.

Launch Event – Wednesday 22 October
5-6:30pm: Exhibition and VR video viewing
6:30-7:30pm: Live somatic engagements with collaborators Byuka Makodru, Dyana Gravina, Giulia Casalini & n:u (melissandre varin)
7:30-8:00pm: Informal drinks and gathering

Exhibition Continues Thursday 23 October – Saturday 1 November, Tuesday – Saturday 11am-5pm

Biography

Niya B is a multi-disciplinary artist, working at the intersections of visual art and performance. She uses video, soundscapes, text, live acts and immersive installations and technologies to explore themes related to ecology, (trans)gender politics, class, mythology and the knowledge that is held in the land and the performing body.

Niya has shown work in exhibitions, festivals, live art events and academic conferences including Tate Britain and The Yard Theatre (London), CCA (Glasgow), Site Gallery (Sheffield), BOM (Birmingham), ONCA (Brighton), Performance Space (Folkestone), NEoN festival (Dundee); Visioni Del Sud (Salento, Italy); 5th and 8th Thessaloniki Biennale (Greece); 2023 ΕΛΕVΣΙΣ European Capital of Culture (Greece); 5th Moscow Biennale (Russia); International Print Biennale (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle); Goldsmiths University of London; University of Leeds.