Coupling is an expanding series of curatorial projects, collaborations, or artist pairings, where two artists/ practitioners are introduced to one another for the first time and show together because of some common concerns within their work.

In this second edition, Finnish artist and musician Lau Nau (Laura Naukkarinen) couples with London-based artist and publisher David Blamey, both responding to the invitation by taking time to share with each other around their practices, culminating in two new bodies of work relating to the walls, floors, sights and sounds within and around PUBLICS space and to elsewhere. Each artist taking account of the everyday publicness of their materials, where the properties, modalities and interstitialities of the interlude, the pause, the quiet gaps offer the premise for both their works and their co-mingling.

Please join us for the opening event on Thursday 31st of March, at 6–8pm, where both artists will perform live music sets back-to-back. The Coupling exhibition is open during PUBLICS Library opening hours on Wednesdays between 12–6pm and by appointment.