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Sumayya Vally, Counterspace

Sunday Rice Ritual

Glazed ceramic 
20 x 20 x 1 cm
Edition of 20 unique pieces + 1 AP
With a signed and numbered certificate from the artist

£550 (incl VAT)

Translating the spirit of the Serpentine Pavilion 2021 into small-scale, domestic objects for gathering, Sunday Rice Ritual is a limited edition sculpture designed by Sumayya Vally, Counterspace. Recognising informal gatherings and sharing of food as important factors for the preservation of cultures, this edition has been conceived as one long sharing platter, split into 20 individual pieces, each unique and printed in clay, finished in an off-white matte glaze. Echoing the principals on which the Serpentine Pavilion 2021 has been designed, the sculptures reference and pay homage to existing and erased places in London that have held communities over time and continue to do so today.

Three plates from this Limited Edition have been gifted to the fellows from Support Structures for Support Structures programme, which supports artists working at the intersections of art and social justice, art and ecology and art and the archive. By purchasing this Limited Edition, you become part of a network together with the other people who own a piece of the larger sculpture.

We encourage every buyer to agree to share their contact details with the other 19 people who bought the edition and to stay in touch, meet and share meals.

This limited edition is made of ceramic and glazed, which makes is food-safe. You are welcome to treat it as a sculptural artwork or use it as a food platter.
 


 

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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