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Sirocco Studios is a creative project space in London working across disciplines, shaped through our encounters with individual artists and their projects.
In focus
Divine icons roam as lens
by Marina Grize
Sweetwater Gallery
March 5, 2026 through to April 18, 2026
Leipziger Straße 56-58, Berlin, Germany
The photographs as they appear in On Our Backs were never intended for all audiences. Obfuscation in the work is both a conceptual choice and a preservation of the original conditions of the magazine's circulation, its intimacy, its assumption of a particular reader. The two primary sources, On Our Backs and Valencia Street, are linked through place, time, and a shared project of lesbian sexual and cultural visibility, but, as mentioned earlier, neither is publicly apparent today. The title of the show Divine icons roam as lens is a near-anagram of Valencia in Mission Dolores. An anagram felt structurally true to the history I was working with. Terry Castle's concept of the "apparitional" lesbian describes a figure who has been made to not-quite-appear in Western cultural representation, present only as rumor, as shadow, as implication. The history is there but it requires a particular kind of attention to see.
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Sirocco Jewellery is the ongoing project of Kay Hammond, exploring the craft of vitreous enamel and sterling silver through designing and creating handcrafted, bespoke pieces.
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Sirocco Journal publishes writing, interviews and conversations between emerging and established artists, writers, and academics working across artistic disciplines such as collage, sculpture, painting, printmaking, curaton, photography, and music.
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2025
Sirocco Journal is the ongoing project of Luke Newbould, bringing together essays, visual contributions and dialogue, resulting in a rich exchange of ideas.
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2024―2025
Ethos
The Arcade is a non-linear and decentralised space, with the mission to share forms of imagination that explore commitment, matter, embodiment, in connection with, yet not subordinated to, theory.
Working with the fields of photography, art and craft, The Arcade is driven by a holistic vision that brings process, form and reasoning to the forefront, working with practices that are both critically engaged and materially grounded.
Working with the fields of photography, art and craft, The Arcade is driven by a holistic vision that brings process, form and reasoning to the forefront, working with practices that are both critically engaged and materially grounded.
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