About Imagined Exhibitions
This website shares the first Imagined Exhibitions to emerge from a wider curatorial project of the same name, which aims at resourcing counterfactual imaginings of what exhibitions could be under transformed conditions.
Originating in a series of conversations with artists, curators and activists, the Imagined Exhibitions shared here are four artists’ responses to an invitation to develop their imaginings into speculative propositions for possible – or impossible – future projects.
Centred on a set of imagination prompts as to how exhibitions could be otherwise, these conversations generated speculations of exhibitions – or non-exhibitions – that felt too rich in potential to be left as ideas fleetingly-sketched in conversational speech.
Imagined Exhibitions experiments with how to make these imaginings shareable, inviting the author of each to imagine into them further and develop them into a sensory form that enables others to experience and engage with their imagining.
about the
collaborators
Becoming Weightless (2024) is by Ama Josephine Budge. Visuals edited by Sam Smith
Ama Josephine Budge is a British-Ghanaian speculative writer, artist, curator and pleasure activist who explores the kinships between Blackness, feminism, decolonial aesthetics, queer erotics and ecology to form a praxis she has named Intimate Ecologies, working toward liberatory interspecies futures.
Exhibitions Otherwise: questioning the convention of exhibition-making(2024)
is by Jasmina Cibic. Voice: Anna-Louise Plowman
Jasmina Cibic works in film, sculpture, performance and installation to explore ‘soft power’ – how political rhetoric is deployed through art and architecture, particularly examining how cultural production is used by the state to communicate certain principles and aspirations.
Sketches of a Woman (2024) is by Shawanda Corbett
Shawanda Corbett is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores what constitutes a 'complete body' through the lens of cyborg theory. Inspired by Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto and authors like Octavia E. Butler, her multimedia works transcend boundaries between organic/synthetic, human/animal, and physical/non-physical.
delayed echoes at the edge of perceptibility… (2025 - )
is by Access Lab & Library
Access Lab & Library (ALL), co-founded by Fayen d’Evie, Jon Tjhia and Lloyd Mst, develops and nurtures disability-led and artist-led access in creative settings, approaching access as a temporary, collectively-held space, as an experimental field, and as a platform for generosity.
The Imagined Exhibitions website is designed by artist Valerie Asiimwe Amani.
Amani’s practice is both a witness and a portal; observing the structures that shape our realities while inviting audiences to imagine what lies beyond them. Her approach is anti-disciplinary and always evolving – reflecting a belief in art as a site of transformation, resistance, and critical dreaming.
