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PLEASE NOTE: This catalogue will only be available to ship from January 2022. 

On the occasion of Serpentine Pavilion 2021 designed by Sumayya Vally, Counterspace, Serpentine has co-published a catalogue with Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König. Richly illustrated and designed by Joseph Kohlmaier, it includes contributions by a number of artists, poets and writers including Siphokazi Jonas, Lesley Lokko, Courttia Newland, Ain Bailey and Imani Robinson and an interview between Sumayya Vally and Sir David Adjaye OBE, the project's curator Natalia Grabowska and Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Siphokazi Jonas has written a poem in response to the themes explored in the design of this Pavilion. Courttia Newland contributed a short story set in London, The Gold that Built the City and Lesley Lokko wrote about Vally’s practice through the lens of their friendship. The catalogue also includes excerpts from Imani Robinson’s lyrical response to Ain Bailey’s sound commission ATLANTIC RAILTON. The texts are accompanied by a conversation between Sumayya Vally, Sir David Adjaye OBE, Natalia Grabowska and Hans Ulrich Obrist. The inclusion of archival and research images gives insight into the design process and brings together the many places and histories that inspired the design of the Pavilion.

 

Editor:

Natalia Grabowska

 

Authors:

Sir David Adjaye OBE

Ain Bailey and Imani Robinson

Natalia Grabowska

Siphokazi Jonas

Lesley Lokko

Courttia Newland

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Sumayya Vally

 

Designer:

Joseph Kohlmaier

 

Publisher:

Serpentine and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Köln

 

Size:

135 x 210mm (portrait)

 

ISBN 978-1-908617-72-9

Serpentine, London

 

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Sumayya Vally

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Sumayya Vally (b. 1990, South Africa) carries obsession for Johannesburg and her work around narrative, identity and memory in the city have admitted her into a host of conceptual and investigatory projects, including a position as assistant curator and film producer for La Biennale di Venezia 2014 (South African Pavilion). Sumayya has recently been selected as a finalist (top 3) for the Civitella Ranieri Foundation architecture residency prize (2019) and was a finalist for the Rolex Mentorship and Protege award (2018/2019).

Sumayya’s design, research and pedagogical practice is committed to finding expression for hybrid identities and contested territories. She is in love with Johannesburg. It serves as her laboratory for finding speculative histories, futures, archaeologies, and design languages; with the intent to reveal the invisible. Her work is often forensic, and draws on performance, the supernatural, the wayward and the overlooked as generative places of history and work. She is presently based between Johannesburg and London as the lead designer for the Serpentine Pavilion 2020/20 Plus 1.

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