EXHIBITION: EXPERIMENTS CARVED FROM TIME
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Bleur Gallery in collaboration with Harlesden High Street, presents Experiments Carved from Time - a landmark group exhibition curated by Emmanuel Massillon showcasing a new generation of Royal College of Art artists challenging the boundaries of form, material, and meaning. Opening in Bleur’s newly launched hybrid gallery and studio space on Baker Street, the exhibition embodies the gallery’s mission to reimagine the high street as a site of creative resistance, collaboration, and renewal.
Ramone ‘K’ Anderson - ‘How many of us have them’ & ‘Nestle’, 2025
Jordan Zayas Kelly - Birth of a Nation, 2025
“I’m proud to see how this collaboration extends our commitment to experimentation and community. Harlesden High Street exists to support artists who challenge convention and create access for those traditionally excluded from the art world.”
– Jonny Tanna, Founder and Director of Harlesden High Street gallery
Experiments Carved from Time invites audiences into a space where sculpture bends into painting, text collides with material intervention, and abstraction dissolves into performance. Each artist works as an experimenter, testing how time, ancestry, and lived experience inscribe themselves on material form, and how fragments of the past can be reassembled into speculative futures.
Jordan Zayas Kelly - ‘Pocket Books’, 2024
The launch of Experiments Carved from Time also inaugurates Bleur’s 2025-26 programming WE HAVE NEVER BEEN POWERLESS, a curatorial statement affirming art as a force for resistance and renewal.
As artists increasingly rethink material practice as a mode of resistance - confronting erasure, inequality, and ecological decline - featured artists Jordan Zayas Kelly, Xavier Laurent Leopold, Aziah J Lusala, and Ramone “K” Anderson move fluidly between personal and collective narratives, redefining how matter can speak and offering new vocabularies for resilience, transformation, and the reshaping of fragments from the past into new futures.
Xavier Laurent Leopold - Joseph, 2025; A brown study (Resilience), 2025; Self Portrait, 2025
From Kelly’s engagement with sugar, denim, and raw cotton, which draws attention to histories embedded in everyday materials, to Lusala’s sculptural reflections on resilience and visibility, and Leopold’s meditations on faith and ancestry, each artist offers a vision of transformation. Meanwhile, presented by Bolanle Contemporary, Anderson brings the aesthetics of the street into the gallery, transforming spray paint into a tool of reclamation - turning the urban environment into both canvas and language.
“Brought together by a shared commitment to experimentation, these artists transform the studio into a site of invention — where material becomes memory, and process becomes language.”
– Emmanuel Massillon, Curator.
Aziah J Lusala - English Foreigner, 2025
Evoking permanence and impermanence, the exhibition also presents video works by Suni Mullen, Allen-Golder Carpenter with Emmanuel Massillon, and Aziah J Lusala. Carpenter and Massillon revisit their live performance from June’s London Gallery Weekend, while Mullen and Lusala explore memory, language, and the structures of institutional power.
“At Bleur, artists lead the conversation, and process, dialogue, and transformation are as vital as the final work. Experiments Carved from Time embodies what we believe art should be: collaborative, fearless, and deeply human”
– Aurelia Islimye and Ana Aguirre, Co-Founders of Bleur.
The recently opened Bleur Gallery & Studios reimagines empty commercial spaces as cultural and collaborative platforms. The gallery is part of Westminster City Council’s Meanwhile On project, providing innovative brands access to high-profile spaces, relief on business rates, and end-to-end project support. Thanks to The Portman Estate, the gallery is offered rent-free, demonstrating how creative initiatives can reclaim urban spaces.
Exhibition Details
Presented by Bleur Gallery x Harlesden High Street
Title: Experiments Carved from Time
Curator: Emmanuel Massillon
Artists: Jordan Zayas Kelly, Xavier Laurent Leopold, Aziah J Lusala, Ramone “K” Anderson, presented by Bolanle Contemporary. Video works by Suni Mullen, Allen-Golder Carpenter with Emmanuel Massillon, and Aziah J Lusala
Venue: Bleur Gallery & Studios, 62–64 Baker Street, London W1U 7DF
Opening times: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun - appointments only
Dates: 6th October 2025 - 2 November 2025
Private View: 11th October 2025
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