REASSEMBLAGE

Reassemblage is a collaborative exhibition between Teaspoon Projects and General Assembly, bringing together the work of Roudhah Al Mazrouei, Alessandra Risi Castoldi and Natalya Marconini Falconer. Reassemblage begins from a shared intuition: that landscapes and materials remember. Rocks, pastes, copper sheets, stamps, industrial remnants and plant matter are treated not as passive supports but as things that have lived; things that quietly store the pressures of migration, ritual, extraction and care. The artists are unified by their concern with how such materials hold cultural memory, especially where personal, colonial and industrial histories are fractured or incomplete.

Drawing on Jane Bennett’s notion of vibrant matter, the artists approach stone, snaah, resin, copper, botanical fragments and industrial debris not as passive supports but as living materials – agents that hold, transmit and at times resist the histories impressed upon them. Each practice listens to the particular energies of its materials – how scent lingers or fades, how metal tarnishes, how paper burns or buckles, how a stone carries time. Memory is not simply something the artists depict; it is something that moves through pigments, metals, resins and scars in the land. The title Reassemblage takes its name from the work of filmmaker and writer Trinh T. Minh-ha, for whom storytelling is less a matter of delivering fixed truths than of composing with life – of speaking from within the flow of inherited stories, repetitions and interruptions. For Trinh, a story is never simply one person’s property: it is a fragment and a whole at once, a weave of past, present and future that keeps accumulating in and through the body. Here, ‘reassemblage’ names the way each artist works with fragments – of ritual, archive, debris – recomposing them without pretending to restore a single, authoritative history.