Summer Exhibitions Opening Party

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DLWP warmly invites you to join us on Thursday 12 June to celebrate the opening of our two new exhibitions for summer 2025: Allan Weber: My Order and Claudia Alarcón & Silät: Tayhin.

TIMINGS:
6pm: Doors open, welcome drinks on arrival
7pm: Speeches
8.30pm: Event ends

Everyone is welcome!

Details: www.dlwp.com/event/exhibitions-opening-party/

ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONS:
14 June – 14 September 2025

Allan Weber: My Order
Ground floor gallery

Working across a range of mediums, including assemblage, sculpture, installation, and photography, Weber's practice is deeply rooted in the realities of his environment. His work embraces the ambiguity, chaos, and violence of urban life, treating the streets as connective tissue, and transforming mundane objects through sharp poetics and social commentary. By bringing materials loaded with history into the exhibition
space, Weber offers a window into the realities he experiences and imagines.

Co-commissioned with Nottingham Contemporary, My Order is a site-specific sculptural and photographic installation in the Ground floor gallery that furthers Webber's social practice as an artist by drawing attention to global economies of invisible labour and circulation of goods. Responding to the gallery's architectural connection to outdoor space through its wall of windows looking out to the seafront, Weber's works will be installed in conversation with the movements and activities of passers-by throughout the summer months.

Claudia Alarcón & Silät: Tayhin
First floor gallery

Claudia Alarcón is an indigenous textile artist from the La Puntana community of Wichí people of northern Salta, Argentina. Alongside her own artistic practice, she leads the Silät collective, an organisation of over one hundred women weavers of different generations from the Alto la Sierra and La Puntana Wichí communities. The exhibition at De La Warr Pavilion brings together a series of recent weavings created by Alarcón and the collective, presented in a site-specific installation in the First floor gallery.

Alarcón & Silät's experimentation with materials and subject matter forms part of a wider intent to foster creativity, independent and self-sustaining practice, providing women across generations and geographies the opportunity to transmit a contemporary indigenous culture into the webs of international art dialogues, beyond ethnographic readings.