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The solo exhibition I Love Ancient Baby by Jala Wahid (*1988, lives in London) features a new video work and a set of new sculptures within an affective and seductive staging of form, material and space.

Wahid delves into the idea that time and feelings are cyclical, that we display the same anxieties and desires ancient civilizations lived out thousands of years ago and that artefacts are charged with these emotions.
Employing juxtapositions and montages between museum documentation, playing cards for soldiers utilized within the war machine, sculpture, wall painting and lighting the artist …