6 – 14 June 2026

The Dark Wood is a new film and sound installation by Space Afrika & Valentin Noujaïm, featuring the film Opera Omnia (2025). Across film, dialogue and sound, the exhibition approaches urban space as a site of memory, recurrence and disappearance.

Shot on 35mm, Opera Omnia follows a night-time passage through Manchester. Drawing on Dante’s Inferno as a loose point of departure, the film moves through themes of descent, return and encounter. Dante’s text continues through a new dialogue-based work and a sound installation composed by Space Afrika for the exhibition. 

Together, the works hold image, voice and sound in close relation, moving through repetition, interruption and drift. The city appears not simply as setting, but as a place in which traces, histories and voices continue to accumulate.