Preview weekend: 18 - 19 January 2025, 12–6 pm
The Sunday Painter is pleased to participate in Condo 2025, a collaborative exhibition by 49 galleries across 22 London spaces, with an immersive installation by Copenhagen-based artist Georges Binda Celeste Alexandrino Gabriel Ferreira Da Silva. The gallery will host Proyectos Ultravioleta (Guatemala City), presenting works by Radamés “Juni” Figueroa (Puerto Rico) and Akira Ikezoe (Japan) in a two-person exhibition.
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In Ferreira Da Silva's deeply personal inaugural solo exhibition, Letter to my son, the Copenhagen-based artist weaves together film, sculpture, painting, and performance to examine family history, inheritance, and self-discovery through an autobiographical lens. The artist creates an immersive installation transforming commonplace, disposable materials such as cardboard, packaging tape, and thread into meticulously crafted replicas of domestic objects. Centered around a letter and personal effects left by his late father, the work explores the transmission of both physical and psychological inheritance across generations.
The exhibition reframes grief as a generative force, transforming loss into a pathway toward understanding and reconciliation. At its core are meticulously constructed boxes with makeshift straps that evoke bags or rucksacks, each containing cardboard replicas of household items. These everyday objects—a TV unit, a clock, clothing—have been recontextualised from one of the artist's previous installations, where he hollowed out and expanded the internal contents of the domestic sphere to examine notions of home. Though hidden from viewers' sight, his current exploration deepens his ongoing investigation of the mundane as a vessel for memory. The containers become physical manifestations of generational echoes shared between the artist and his sister, bearing the invisible weight of family history. Through this engagement with his father's tangible and intangible legacy, Letter to my son approaches inheritance as a living dialogue between past and present.
Georges Binda Celeste Alexandrino Gabriel Ferreira Da Silva (b. 1989 Kinshasa, Congo) lives in Copenhagen and creates within the realms of film, sculpture, painting, and performance. Da Silva explores themes related to history, place, migration, time, and family. An autodidact, Da Silva utilises disposable, everyday materials such as cardboard and brown packing tape to craft meticulously detailed replicas of ordinary objects - windows, furniture, electrical equipment, clothes - which he incorporates into performances that position his own body at the heart of the creation.