"Absence and conflict aside, these artists forged a specific kind of constitution—one that afforded new breath. They hold themselves close to the Earth. Wandering through sites of the imagination, they travelled across a myriad of trails and routes—tunnelling into a collective subconscious—one that is vivid, rich and abundant in its aesthetic possibilities.
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Here, I present you with a fragment of what I call “dreamwork”—a form of social imagination arched around safeguarding aesthetic culture from the margins of history. Here, the diasporic imagination is reclaimed, illuminating the possibilities of shared movement—literal and metaphorical, exploring how it affects artistic method. Fellow Travellers is a parcel, a constitutive act of worlding, of dreaming.
— Professor Omar Kholeif
Conceived and curated by artist, author and cultural historian Professor Omar Kholeif, Fellow Travellers asks how we might re-dream the routes, flows and counter-flows of modernity through the present. Bringing together Sonia Balassanian (b. 1942, Armenian-Iranian-American); Jai Chuhan (b. 1955, Punjab, India); Luísa Correia Pereira (1945–2009, Portuguese); Lalitha Lajmi (1932–2023, Indian); Irene Scheinmann (1933–2023, Iraqi-British) and Omar Kholeif (b. Cairo, Egypt) the exhibition traces artistic journeys across Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, approaching movement as a generative space for kinship, memory and aesthetic exchange.
Omar Kholeif, The Path to Freedom (Homage to Simone Fattal), oil on canvas, 2025-6
Installation view
irene Scheinmann, early 1970s
Ocean Intimacy (The Ancestor Dance on the Seabed), oil and natural pigments on linen
Omar Kholeif, Ancestor (Mother and Child Tread along a Long Path Together) oil and mixed media on linen.