To coincide with their exhibition Remedies – Lullaby Nest join artists Sasha Huber, Petri Saarikko and Matshidiso in conversation with Gabriela Salgado, The Showroom’s director.

The event will include the opportunity to listen to London-based composer Matshidiso’s lullaby soundscape, and will consider the exhibition within Huber and Saarikko’s wider Remedies Universe project instigated in 2010.

The exhibition considers the age-old tradition of the lullaby within the context of Huber and Saarikko’s Remedies project as a way of upholding time and space for rest and sleep. At the Showroom the Finnish-Swiss duo offer this universal, commonplace remedy as an antidote to the relentless overstimulation and crisis-fuelled reality of our everyday lives, in what is often a hostile and violent world. The gallery space is reimagined as a nest, a caring and supportive structure providing time and space to rest, with an immersive soundscape by London-based composer Matshidiso. The composition includes recorded fragments of lullabies sung by members of the local community in their own languages, bringing together threads of diverse ancestral narratives passed down orally from generation-to-generation.