Landscapes, weather, food, community, generational memory and a plethora of other factors affect the curling of our tongues. How do objects carry our dialect in foreign lands? Can we invoke our dialect into the “things of others'' through our actions?

This exhibition explores the encounter of dialect through the works of young global artists who met in London but work with different mother tongues. It also addresses an alternative return to “marginal regions” in the context of globalised localisation, seeking ways to reconstitute society through metaphor and allegory, and finding a homeland and personal narrative that transforms with the flow of people.

Shaped by geography and social habits, dialects serve as folk vernacular to a region’s political system and its ethnic communities, often referring to a polyphonic narrative between dwellers and outsiders. Our dialects are also influenced by “things” (non-human actors and factors). 

The dialects of each artist’s work in this exhibition form a murmuring ballad, weaving into a counterforce that flicks away the vast discourse, cultural symbols and political contexts that envelop their social identity. In the Georgian-style space of 2 Audley Square, these different encounters between works, personal histories, and cultural contexts seek new understanding between places in personal and collective approaches.