| Installation |
Please Know, The Guests ARE Coming
2026
Installation In situ - 27/05/26 - 27/06/26
Private View 17/06/26
Dyson Building, Battersea, London
300 x 200 x 150 cm
‘Please Know, The Guests ARE Coming,’ as a room installation combines two free-standing large-scale image sculptures produced using a self-discovered method of image application, manipulation and scouring during the MA Print program in 2026. ‘Garage/Boiler cupboard,’ (100 x 70 x 30 cm) and ‘Living Room,’ (150 x 70 x 100 cm).
The image-objects included are composed of inkjet prints adhered to discarded and repurposed advertising foam board panels. This large-scale sculptural method emerged after experimenting with foam board for book covers for the publication ‘D0_0R.’ Print as a practice exists at the intersection between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional image production. Compiled flat prints can become books; these works return to this familiar but still relevant question, especially in a time of decline in physical press production and physical media consumption.Depicted in both sculptures are domestic household comforts, creating an illusion of habitable space. The title announces to the viewer that this is a space that is preparing itself to expect guests, however all comforts are unsettling and unusable, ready to be rolled up and removed at short notice, when the moment of event has passed. In addition to referencing personal experience of family uprooting this makes reference to the growing housing crisis in London, and the unstable state of comfort and relation to a home throughout the city and wider UK.
Along wall/floor margins the works ‘IONIC COLUMN (CCTV),’ ‘Library of Offcuts (Radiator)’ and the publication ‘D0_0R’ are additionally presented.
The wall-based work ‘Narrow Ledge’ completes the installation.
(100 x 70 x 30 cm). Foamboard, inkjet prints, PVC tape and toy car.
‘Living Room (Couch)’ 2026
(150 x 70 x 100 cm). Foamboard, inkjet prints, masking tape and office wheels.
‘IONIC COLUMN (CCTV)’
Closed-circuit video, projector, foam board plinth, inkjet prints on vinyl paper and oil-based paint.
‘Narrow Ledge’
(300 x 20 x 3 cm). Foam board, inkjet prints, metal clips and masking tape.
‘D0_0R’
A5 landscape format publication (63 pages) 40 editions in 1st Print. Foam board, 130 gsm Simili Japon paper, PVC tape, adhesive.
‘Library of Offcuts (Radiator)’
(15 x 20 x 150 cm). Metal radiator, inkjet prints, foam board, varied papers, book board and orange peel.
‘The Guests Are Coming,’ is presented alongside and in conversation with the work of frequent collaborator Isabella Lozano Flumginan (Joined projects: SHE SAID: [SHE SAID], Something Like This, Flatten Crosscheck and Report). Imagery from both artists work is playfully cross referenced and mirrored thoughout all pieces in the show. Isabella and Alma have an upcoming duo show scheduled for January 2027 in the Peckham Gallery M2.