Frieze and the ICA collaborate to curate a programme of artists’ film and moving image, coinciding with Frieze London 2024.
 
From 8 – 13 October, the ICA hosts a drop-in screening programme of artists’ film and moving image in the ICA Theatre, with the selection playing on a continuous loop each day.
 
Alongside the in-person screenings, the programme will be streamable across the globe until 31 October at ica.art and frieze.com. 

Artists:

Hamedine Kane & Ayesha Hameed
Xin Liu
Laila Majid & Louis Blue Newby
Claudia Martínez Garay
Onyeka Igwe
Jacolby Satterwhite
Sung Tieu

Programme Information

This film programme features works by seven artists and collaborators: Onyeka Igwe, Sung Tieu, Claudia Martínez Garay, Xin Liu, Laila Majid & Louis Blue Newby, Hamedine Kane & Ayesha Hameed, and Jacolby Satterwhite. Together, their films invite viewers on a journey across layered terrains of memory, power, and identity. Moving fluidly between the intimate and the expansive, these works explore the interplay between past and present, reality and imagination. 

Onyeka Igwe’s a so-called archive (2020) delves into the tensions between archive, memory, and place, uncovering layers of history embedded in urban landscapes. Similarly, Claudia Martínez Garay’s Ayataki (2022–23) weaves animation and sound to explore cultural heritage and the fragmented nature of collective memory. Sung Tieu’s One Thousand Times (Gehrenseestrasse) (2023) revisits the aesthetics of the past through Super 8 film, building a narrative that examines notions of surveillance and power structures. 

Technology emerges as both observer and participant across these films, capturing the invisible boundaries of belonging and alienation. Xin Liu’s The White Stone (2021) reflects on the intersection of technology and the body, questioning how contemporary existence is mediated through digital realms. Laila Majid & Louis Blue Newby’s south florida sky (2022) meditates on materiality and the environment, juxtaposing the natural world with synthetic realities. 

Themes of migration and displacement are further explored in Hamedine Kane & Ayesha Hameed’s In the Shadow of Our Ghosts (2018), which engages in a dialogue on migration, displacement, and the construction of belonging through a deeply personal lens. Meanwhile, Jacolby Satterwhite’s Shrines (2020) merges 3D animation with elements of performance to unravel themes of queer identity, fantasy, and the fluidity of space and time. 

With meditative precision, these films unravel the complexities of desire, fantasy, and the mutable nature of time. By embracing the poetic and the uncanny, they invite us to reconsider the narratives we inherit and the worlds we construct. In this programme, the familiar transforms into the enigmatic, leaving viewers lingering on the edges of what is seen and what remains just out of reach. 

Tuesday 8 – Sunday 13 Oct, Theatre, 12 – 9pm
 
Every ticket gives access to all exhibitions all day, including Geumhyung Jeong: Under Construction



(All films screening daily on a continuous loop during opening hours)

Onyeka Igwe, a so-called archive, 2020, HD Video, colour, sound, 19 min 40 sec. Courtesy the artist and Arcadia Missa, London
 
Sung Tieu, One Thousand Times (Gehrenseestrasse), 2023, Super 8 transferred to HD video, colour, sound, 8 min 51 sec. Courtesy the artist and Emalin, London; Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg / Beirut; Trautwein Herleth, Berlin. © Sung Tieu
 
Claudia Martínez Garay, Ayataki, 2022-23, HD Video animation, colour, sound, 14 min 40 sec. Courtesy the artist and Grimm, Amsterdam/London/New York
 
Jacolby Satterwhite, Shrines, 2020, HD video and 3D animation, colour, sound, 13 min 37 sec. Courtesy of the artist and Kadel Willborn, Düsseldorf
 
Xin Liu, The White Stone, 2021, HD video, colour, sound, 21 min 57 sec. Courtesy the artist and Make Room, Los Angeles 

Hamedine Kane & Ayesha Hameed, In the Shadow of Our Ghosts, 2018, HD video, colour, sound, 13 min 34 sec. Courtesy the artist and Selebe Yoon, Dakar 

Laila Majid & Louis Blue Newby, south florida sky, 2022, HD video, colour, sound, 7 min 24 sec. Courtesy the artists and Xxijra Hii, London