Film Screening and Conversation Between Gaby Sahhar and Tamar Clarke-Brown.

Quench welcomes Gaby Sahhar back to Quench to share this new work on a special one day event. Gaby Sahhar had a solo show in 2024 "Everywhere and Nowhere" which you can read more about here.

Set between London and Paris, the film explores how queer Palestinians navigate the complex intersections of national identity and sexuality.

The film will be followed by a Q&A with director Gaby Sahhar, moderated by Tamar Clarke-Brown.

Abstraction Belongs To Us will screen during the day between 2-5pm (12 minutes long, open to all) followed by a discussion at 5pm. Seats for the discussion will be limited so booking is essential. Quench screening room is in the basement level accessible only by a flight of stairs, if you have any access questions or needs please don't hesitate to contact us at [email protected]

ARTIST BIOS

Gaby Sahhar's multidisciplinary practice is shaped by the metropolis as a site of psychological and social tension. Through speculative storytelling, the work explores the gap between inner life and external structures, examining how culture is formed, disrupted, and reimagined through globalised networks. Their paintings resist fixed perspectives in favour of interconnectedness and multiplicity. Informed by queer and gender-focused lenses, Using the megacity as a space of unravelling, sahhar investigates hybridity, resistance, and transformation, generating conversations around shared vulnerability, social bonds, and the blurred peripheries of borders.A graduate of Goldsmiths (2015) and Royal College of Art (2025), Exhibitions include MAC VAL, Paris, PAGE (NYC), Institut du Monde Arab, Paris, Sadie Coles HQ, London, and Whitechapel Gallery. Tate Britain, SLG, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, Art o Rama, Marseille, CIRCA, BFI London, Moscow International Biennale, Arcadia Missa, Alamanc Projects and Art Jameel, (2015 - 2026)

Tamar Clarke-Brown is a curator and writer whose practice centres overlooked imaginaries, diasporic knowledge systems, and experimental worldbuilding. As Curator (Arts Technologies) at Serpentine, she commissions artworks and R&D projects that investigate the civic potential of technologies through storytelling and speculative practice. Recent commissions include Gabriel Massan’s widely-touring video game Third World: The Bottom Dimension, and THE DELUSION, a critically acclaimed multiplayer project by Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley addressing polarisation and censorship. A 2024-5 NEW INC mentor, she has presented with institutions including ICA, Tate, Yale, Somerset House, NTS Radio and more, and written for publications including CURA, Dazed, i-D, AQNB, and King Kong Magazine. Tamar is a frequent speaker and judge for festivals such as Ars Electronica.

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