Teaspoon Projects is excited to present Duets, a duo exhibition at 65A Charlotte Street by artists Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell and Dwayne Coleman, co-curated by Mariana Lemos and Gigi Surel.

Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell and Dwayne Coleman’s Duets explores proximity—between what is held intimately, in moments shared with others, and what lingers across generations, passed down in stories that slip through memory, tangle with history, and settle into the markers of time and place that define us.

The title suggests a conversation, a call and response. Voices intertwining, materials speaking back to one another. A trumpet call, a note held, a touch that settles into memory. Music moves where words cannot. Campbell and Coleman respond to these rhythms — adapting, moving, weaving into a shared song.

For Gurung-Russell Campbell, knotting is both method and metaphor—an intimate act of unravelling and reassembling her relationship to personal and collective histories. In sculptural installations of knotted jute rope and flags, and tintype prints of family photographs, she traces the entangled threads of migration, identity, and the enduring legacies of empire. By re-appropriating materials, rituals, and imagery, she shifts their symbolic weight, reimagining their role as emblems of identity. This continual reshaping embodies the tensions of belonging, displacement, and relational histories.

For Coleman, the meticulous, almost alchemical process of making images — using dye, bleach, pigment, and rust — transforms fabric into a site where personal histories and broader cultural narratives converge. His work creates a poetics of the mundane, where colour holds emotion and material carries histories of labour, class, and care. His patchwork canvases reflect the fragmented nature of memory, each stitch a mark, each layer a record of time, an imprint of intimate work. His process is one of reclamation of symbols of identity and the everyday work that often goes unseen.

Duets resists erasure, pushing back against the flattening of experience into transaction. It dwells in what withstands capture: the intimate, the personal. It honours what is shared across generations, defying the reduction of experience into something consumable. Duets is about relation — the space between two notes, the way bodies move together or apart, a shared moment that lingers long after the sound fades.

A publication, designed by Plan B and published by Folium, with contributions from Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell, Dwayne Coleman, Divine Southgate-Smith, Filipa Rocha Nunes, James Jordan Johnson, Kyle Hulwa-Ostrander, Melanie Sheiner, Mariana Lemos and Gigi Surel will be launched in June alongside an evening of performances.