01(A Study) In Muddled Light
Kip Gallery
68 Peckham Road
London SE5 8QE
Solo
28 February- 8 March
2026
“(A Study) In Muddled Light” reimagines the gallery as a site for active study, where research is understood from within its own interior. Text and ideas intimately unfold across the heart of the home that plays host to Kip. Tawfik’s subtle sculptural and sensory interventions facilitate the ability to explore his ongoing research into how historic trauma is carried, remembered, and transformed. His research borrows from ecological and cosmological systems to imagine alternative ways of witnessing the past.
Throughout the exhibition, Tawfik welcomes collaborators to join him. During these ‘study sessions’ research partners are invited to discuss, work, share, or develop from their own practices alongside him, with the potential for this work to leak into and reshape the foundational research set by Tawfik. In turn, visitors can leave their mark by navigating the available information and digesting it in an intuitive way.
Photography by Rita Silva
Across the run of (A Study) In Muddled Light - three texts were offered into the space as points of access inside the research.In Muddled Light
Mineral Question
Our Question Is A Cosmic Material
Other points of access came from invited participants.
Their contributions took form in taste and scent.
Tatse
Made by
Gabrielle Jameson
Magnolia Vinegar x Shittake + Ginger // Drink
Scent
Made by
Ashiana Fraser
AR1091176 Before The Return- EDP 20%
T: Funghi note, Wormwood, Wet earth
M: Cedarwood, Black Magnolia
B: Myrrh, Copaiba, Patchouli Roots, Vetiver Roots
AR1091175 After The Return - EDP 20%
T: Baies Rose Petals, Lemon, Cardamom
M: Orange Flower, Frankincense, Ylang, Jasmine
B: Vetiver, Dry Cedar, Labdanum Resin, Oud
Contributions
->Through Eating Atoms - Gabrielle Jameson developed gestural culinary offerings that aim to punctuate the research over time. Throughout the show - Jameson created a Magnolia vinegar // Shitakke + Ginger syrup beverage.These elements extend in subtleties - tapping at the surface of what is to manifest.
Ashiana Fraser has digested Tawfik’s research and produced two scents that signify the space before and after the “return”. They position the research into two distinct spaces - underground and above ground where Spring is about to come. This scented offerings act as a sensorial guide through the research - another way to digest an intuitive or embodied beginning.
- ** Saturday 7 March - Munesu Mukombe:Environment Making - Tawfik and Munesu attune to the hidden sounds of the space.
Munesu and Tawfik reencounter their joint framework "Environment Making” which looks to investigate how a space is made and new art methodologies are created. Through an unfolding of sonic revelations, together, they will digest the research and their surroundings. Similar to a mix CD you made for your high school crush or a song reblogged on your totally aesthetic and mildly popular Tumblr page, Munesu and Tawfik attune to the hidden sounds of the space - offering these to the audience like a gift.
Follow the playlist below to enoucter the outputs again.
- Grove (feat. Embaci) — Elysia Crampton
- A Lie — Kelela (prod. Bok Bok)
- Pink + White — Frank Ocean
- A Message — Kelela
- Bygones — A Made Up Sound
- Say Hey — Kylie Minogue
- Adore — I:Cube
- Have You Decided — Ruthven
- Breaths — Sweet Honey in the Rock
- Bliss (Acapella) — Mariah Carey
- Romantic — Mannequin Pussy
- My All — Mariah Carey
Invited Studiers ->
Ashiana Fraser
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... is a fragrance developer and fragrance specialist based in London. With a vivid imagination, Ashiana’s work leads with emotion, allowing her to connect scent and history with an original olfactive vision.
Eating atoms
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... is an observation by artist and baker Gabrielle Jameson, that uses food as a vehicle for learning. Eating atoms provides a space of insight by exploring how food and life coexist in a collateral stream of information that infuse each other's outcomes.
Hugo Hagger
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... is an artist and writer based in London. He explores queer subjectivity through modes of narrative flux.
Munesu Mukombe
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... wishes you were here!
Samra Mayanja
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... is a ‘vice versa’ type of artist-writer. With love (always).
Study sessions ->
- Sunday 1 March - Hugo Hagger: Tawfik and Hugo live edit text The Question As Cosmic Material.
- Saturday 7 March - Munesu Mukombe: Environment Making - Tawfik and Munesu attune to the hidden sounds of the space.
- Sunday 8 March - traces left by Samra Mayanja in advance of opening at 14:00. Kip will exceptionally close at 17:30 for iftar hosted by Eating atoms.
