Project 88 is pleased to present A Kind of Power as part of Artists Film International 2026 by Forma, from 23 July 2026 to 31 July 2026.
Since the advent of cinema, moving image practice has been tied to questions of perception and power. Early filmmakers imagined the camera as a form of mechanical vision capable of revealing the world objectively, yet cinema quickly exposed how vision remains shaped by the social and political structures that organise the gaze. Throughout the twentieth century, colonial image-making, propaganda, ethnographic film, and patriarchal modes of spectatorship produced and reinforced regimes that shaped how people, cultures, and histories were seen and understood. Far from disappearing, today these systems of visibility have been reconfigured within contemporary digital image cultures defined by circulation, algorithmic mediation, surveillance infrastructures, and the relentless production of visual information.
A Kind of Power brings together a selection of international artists whose films renegotiate the fraught legacies of representation and respond to the conditions under which people, histories, and territories are made visible. Many of the artists move beyond critique alone, to explore how moving-image might create new forms of relation, attention, and collective presence. While some works confront contemporary systems of visibility directly, others propose alternative ways of inhabiting and understanding the world through ritual, memory, reciprocity, and acts of witnessing
Featured Artists:
Razia Akbari, selected by Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan in eXiLe e.V., (CCAA in EXiLe), Frankfurt, Germany
Aqsa Arif, selected by Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
Alessandra Ferrini, selected by Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy
Ira Goryainova, selected by argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, Belgium
Kiyo Gutiérrez, selected by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, USA
Marte Hodne Haugen, selected by Tromsø Kunstforening,Tromsø, Norway
Malik Irtiza, selected by Project 88, Mumbai, India
Thaís Muniz, selected by Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Ann Oren, selected by Video-Forum of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k), Berlin, Germany
Amaal Said, selected by Forma, London and Focal Point, Southend, UK
Mila Turajlić, selected by Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Video News, selected by Sapieha Palace, branch of the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania
We will be screening a selection of films at our gallery space from 23 July 2026 to 31 July 2026. Screenings will be at 2 pm and 4 pm from Tuesday to Saturday.