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We produce and curate great art and ambitious projects
Looking Forward develops interdisciplinary projects that move across exhibitions, research, publishing, residencies, digital platforms, and public programmes. We work with institutions, artists, and communities to explore how curating can respond to contemporary cultural, ecological, and social urgencies.
Our work is structured around long-term collaborations, flexible formats, and shared authorship, adapting to different scales, contexts, and challenges. From field-based projects and experimental pedagogies to strategic consultancy and critical publishing, each strand contributes to a wider commitment to rethinking how culture is created, organised, and shared.


Deptford Film Club #04
Deptford Film Club is a regular monthly event organised by Empathy & Risk and Looking Forward and in collaboration with ACAVA. Join us for the fourth instalment, which features videos by Yamile Calderon, Jesse Roth, and Blue Ren. Event curated by Carolina Lio and Katerina Matheson. 18 March 2022, 6 pm Empathy & Risk, 1 Borthwick Street, London SE8 3GH 6.15 pm Yamile Calderon Domestic at Large Calderon's film approaches the drug trafficking problem in Colombia from a grounded


Yamile Calderon: Even Jesus Was Bipolar
Part of our Screening Room Programme. Yamile Calderon's film 'Even Jesus Was Bipolar' is a documentary about Hernando Calderón, who...


Guided Walk: Deptford Heritage
Learn the role of Deptford and London in the slave trade with MōSaF London (Museum of Slavery and Freedom) with a free guided walk on...


Walking Deptford's Legacy of Slavery
The first public output of our partnership with MoSAF Museum of Slavery and Freedom, curating and commissioning artist responses to the relevant local historical heritage in Deptford, South East London. 12 February 2022, 2.30 PM - 8.00 PM Empathy & Risk, 1 Borthwick Street, London SE8 3GH Museum of Slavery and Freedom (MoSaF) is a community group operating from Deptford that campaigns to raise awareness about the substantial historical role of London in the Slave Trade, and t


Deptford Film Club #03
Deptford Film Club is a regular monthly event organised by Empathy & Risk and Looking Forward and in collaboration with ACAVA. Join us for the third instalment, which features videos by Helen Cammock, Keith Piper, and Joyce Treasure. This event, curated by Carolina Lio, is dedicated to British Black History and coincides with the launch of our partnership with MoSAF London (Museum of Slavery and Freedom). Event supported by SHAPESLewisham, Lewisham’s Creative Enterprise Zone.


Spectres of Morocco
German-French artist Adrian Schindler’s ‘Spectres of Morocco’ is a performance that aims at deconstructing and counteracting stereotypes...


Deptford Film Club #02
Deptford Film Club is a regular monthly event organised by Empathy & Risk and Looking Forward and in collaboration with ACAVA. The second instalment featured videos by Francis Almendárez, Zain Al Sharaf Wahbeh, Carla Geronimi. Curated by Carolina Lio and Katerina Matheson. 11 January 2022 Empathy & Risk, 1 Borthwick Street, London SE8 3GH 6.20 pm Francis and Anthony Almendárez Navigating the Archives Within 'Navigating the Archives Within', a film by brothers Francis and Anth


Feedforward: EU/Morocco
A day of study, research and dialogue about cultural cooperation between the EU, UK and Morocco. The event starts the new format 'feedforward' - a forum in which practitioners are invited to present their work, receiving and giving challenging feedback and genuine support to one another. 22 December 2021 online Participants include: Soukaina Aboulaoula, Co-director, Untitled Duo, Marrakech Jessica El Mal, co-director of A.MAL Projects, Manchester Farah Fawzi, Arts Programme M


Deptford Film Club #01
07 December 2022 Empathy & Risk, 1 Borthwick Street, London SE8 3GH Deptford Film Club is a monthly event organised by Empathy & Risk and Looking Forward in partnership with ACAVA. Join us for this first appointment featuring videos by David Cotterrell, Cristina Nuñez and Billy Sassi. Curated by Carolina Lio and Katerina Matheson. 6.20 pm Cristina Nuñez Someone to Love Someone To Love collates 25 years of self-portraits - a process of documentation which Nuñez initiated in o


Joyce Treasure: Welcome to England
Welcome to England centres on an intergenerational project with older African and Caribbean people from the Pepper Pot Day Centre under...


Searching for Symptoms - Ella Belenky
Searching for Symptoms by Ella Belenky is an eclectic and overlapping mix of drawing, found imagery, metal cages, and the digital. From...


Escape Artist: The Highs and Lows of Chris Dobrowolski
Jesse Roth's film 'Escape Artist: The Highs & Lows of Chris Dobrowolski' covers the 30-year career of the conceptual artist Chris...


Zain Al Sharaf Wahbeh: Traversing the Reimagined Palestinian Neighbourhood
'Traversing the Reimagined Palestinian Neighbourhood' demonstrates the environmental changes of Zain's home country from a local...


Anthony & Francis Almendárez: Navigating the Archives Within
Navigating the Archives Within questions how histories, cultural traditions, and personal experiences are kept and transmitted. The video...


Carla Geronimi: Ladon
Ladon is based on mythology; it evokes a dreamscape that immerses and maintains suspense. Carla explores dreams, memory and identity...


Billy Sassi: The Battle From Outer Space
'The Battle From Outer Space' seeks to explore notions of amateurism and their aesthetics; how that interacts with politics of taste and...


David Cotterrell: Transmission
'Transmission' follows a solitary man’s occupation of an ambiguous space as he tries to engage beyond his own world and begins to fear...


Symposium "The Other Dialogues"
IBERO (Universidad Iberoamericana) Tijuana is hosting a two-day symposium curated by Empathy & Risk, with the support of Sheffield Hallam University and the Global Challenge Research Fund and in partnership with LOOKING FORWARD and Pastor Projects. Symposium online 09 June 2021 16 June 2021 Chaired by Carolina Lio THE OTHER Dialogues is curated by Empathy & Risk in the framework of this partnership, and is part of the Empathy & Risk Dialogues series, started in 2017 as a for


Paul di Felice New Member of Our Board
We are proud to announce Paul di Felice as a member of our board of mentors and advisors. Paul is a member of the association of art...


Interview with Monica Arreola
Carolina Lio interviews Monica Arreola within the framework of the project Dear Aliens , curated by Pastor Projects in collaboration with...


Marinella Senatore in conversation with Matteo Lucchetti
The last video of the series Society of the Many for Visible Storytelling is now online. This longer video ends an incredible cycle...


Announcing Society of Nature - exhibition and public programme
Society of Nature (SoN) was an exhibition at OnCurating Project Space in Zurich assembling multiple perspectives on natural resources...


New Collaboration with Open Dialogue Istanbul
We are thrilled to announce a new collaboration with Open Dialogue Istanbul and the Curating Contemporary Art Programme at Akbank Sanat....


Primal Distance -Video interview with Biel Llinàs
Biel Llinàs is an interdisciplinary artist whose artistic practice investigates the relationship between being and building space by...
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