Hayward Gallery platforms new artist collective as part of free RC Foundation Project Space Exhibition Series

This Summer, the Hayward Gallery, in partnership with the RC Foundation, Taiwan (R.O.C.), will present Freudian Typo: an exciting new collaboration between Iranian-Canadian artists Ghazaleh Avarzamani and Ali Ahadi. The exhibition will comprise new work which playfully critiques Britain’s imperial past and how it manifests today, tracing connections between historical sources and current events in politics and finance.

Freudian Typo takes a critical look at age-old English nursery rhymes like The Old Woman and Her Pig to unpack themes of debt, exploitation and catastrophe. Drawing on archival research into these tales, the resulting exhibition sees the collective interpret a children’s fable through works that are full of puns and double meaning.