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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.


My Echo, My Shadow and Me at University of Luxembourg
Our project within Esch European Capital of Culture 2022. The project takes place at the University of Luxembourg and involves over 50 young people, more than half refugees in temporary accommodation and camps. The exhibition My Echo, My Shadow and Me at Maison du Savoir, University of Luxembourg, is the outcome of regular autobiographical workshops led by artist Cristina Nuñez in 2021 and 2022, involving more than 50 people from three groups: a class C.O.P. (students who ha


Fiamma Montezemolo: Traces
Fiamma Montezemolo's film 'Traces' is a video-essay which uses thorough research and art to discuss the border life between the USA and...


Feedforward: Tijuana's Border
Public presentation of the Empathy&Risk project at the Auditorium of the Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Tijuana, and Feedforward session. 1 April 2022 Auditorium of the Instituto de Cultura de Baja California Paseo del Centenario 1151, 22320 Tijuana Free entrance This session of Feedforward explores narratives and rhetoric of the border, taking the Tijuana/San Diego area as a paradigmatic example. How can we apply this case study to the rest of the world, understand


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...


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...
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