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Iman Datoo, 'Kinnomic Botany', still from film, 2022.
Iman Datoo, 'Kinnomic Botany', still from film, 2022.

Title:
Seedlings: Diasporic Imaginaries

From: 6 Jun 2025

To: 14 Aug 2025

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The Travelling Gallery’s 2025 programme continues into the summer with a group exhibition Seedlings: Diasporic Imaginaries, featuring work by Emii Alrai, Iman Datoo, Remi Jablecki, Radovan Kraguly, Zeljko Kujundzic, Leo Robinson and Amba Sayal-Bennett.

The exhibition explores ways to connect with our worlds through other-than-human perspectives, looking at and challenging boundaries between culture and nature, and destabilising our colonial systems, categories and hierarchies that tend to favour scientific theory and marginalise ancestral knowledges and indigenous cosmologies.

Amba Sayal-Bennett, 'Phlo', PLA and powder coated mild steel. Image courtesy of the artist & Palmer Gallery
Amba Sayal-Bennett, ‘Phlo’, PLA and powder coated mild steel. Image courtesy of the artist & Palmer Gallery

Curated by Jelena Sofronijevic*, the exhibition brings together a variety of contemporary artistic practices, including drawing, printmaking, sculpture and film, that reimagine our collective understandings and visions of places and times. Further information can be found on the Website link (see left).

Iman Datoo, 'Kinnomic Botany', still from film, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist
Iman Datoo, ‘Kinnomic Botany’, still from film, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist
The Travelling Gallery
The Travelling Gallery. Image: City Art Centre, Edinburgh

*Jelena Sofronijevic is a producer, curator, writer, and researcher, working at the intersections of cultural history, politics, and the arts. Jelena’s independent curatorial projects include Invasion Ecology (2024), and producing EMPIRE LINES, (Insta: @empirelinespodcast), a podcast uncovering the unexpected flows of empires through art. They are pursuing a PhD with Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen, curating exhibitions of Balkan and Yugoslavian/diasporic artists in British art collections.

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