EXHIBITION: EXPERIMENTS CARVED FROM TIME
Bleur Gallery proudly presents Experiments Carved from Time, a group exhibition curated by artist and curator Emmanuel Massillon, bringing together a new generation of multidisciplinary artists whose practices challenge the very boundaries of form, medium, 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
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 Book’, 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. Bleur Gallery & Studios is part of Westminster City Council’s Meanwhile On project, set up to provide innovative brands with access to high-profile spaces. The project gives brands significant relief on business rates, budget for store design, and end-to-end support from project delivery partner Someday Studios. The store is offered rent-free, thanks to support from landlord The Portman Estate.
Featuring artists Jordan Zayas Kelly, Xavier Laurent Leopold, Aziah J Lusala, and Ramone “K” Anderson, the exhibition reveals a constellation of practices rooted in experimentation, care, and social justice. From Zayas Kelly’s material interventions using historically exploited resources like sugar, denim, and raw cotton, to Lusala’s cinematic and sculptural meditations on visibility and resilience, and Leopold’s introspective works shaped by memory and faith, these artists articulate new vocabularies of strength and reinvention. Anderson’s uncompromising voice challenges the consumption of Black cultural capital, asserting the power of self-authorship in art and beyond.
The exhibition marks a collaboration between BLEUR Gallery, Harlesden High Street, and Emmanuel Massillon, forming a bridge between grassroots creativity and institutional visibility. Together, they carve out a platform for radical experimentation and collective empowerment at the heart of London.
“This show is about process, risk, and care,” says curator Emmanuel Massillon. “These artists are not just making objects—they’re reshaping the conditions of what it means to create in a world constantly in flux. The exhibition is a record of transformation, of time itself being worked and reworked.”
Exhibition Details
Title: Experiments Carved from Time
Curator: Emmanuel Massillon, in Collaboration with Bleur Gallery x Harlesden High Street
Artists: Jordan Zayas Kelly, Xavier Laurent Leopold, Aziah J Lusala, Ramone “K” Anderson, presented by Bolanle Contemporary.
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 - 25th October 2025
Private View: 11th October 2025
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