Late
MORE Late: Clash Night
18:00–21:00 · All galleries
Opening-week late with DJ sets from Loud House residents, live screen-printing with Olu Adeyemi and a bar in Room 6.
Included with a MORE ticket
Book: MORE Late: Clash NightLoud House presents
MORE
is more.
Curator’s introduction
Less was never more.
For most of the last century, the gallery wall was supposed to be white, the room quiet and the visitor a little intimidated. Good taste meant restraint. More was vulgar.
This exhibition disagrees. MORE brings together thirty artists from twenty cities who work with too much on purpose: too much colour, too much pattern, too many objects, too many people. They borrow from market stalls and parade umbrellas, cinema posters and grandmothers' looms, seaside postcards and shop signs. Their excess is not decoration. It is memory, community and a kind of joy that is hard to find in a beige room.
The show moves through six rooms, from painting at full volume to a finale that grows every day with paper donated by visitors. Some of it is loud. Some of it glows. One piece breathes. You are allowed to feel overwhelmed; there is seating in every room, and quiet hours twice a week.
We hope you leave with your eyes a little tired and your head a little fuller. That is the point. Less was never more. More is more.
Dr Ama Okafor-Reyes
Senior Curator, Loud House
30 artists, one wall
Painters, weavers, sculptors, photographers and one collective of eleven. Choose an artist to meet them and see their work.
Showing all 30 artists
Room01
Ines Obrador. Acrylic on canvas
Painting, turned all the way up
Too Much Colour
Six painters who treat restraint as a dare they refuse to take. Stripes that buzz, rings that wobble and faces built in a hurry. Stand in the middle of the room: everything is looking at you.
In this room
- Ines Obrador
- Kwame Asante-Lowe
- Yuki Harada
- Delphine Moreau-Sy
- Tomasz Wierzbicki
Room02
Priya Ramanathan. Woven reflective and cotton thread
Quilts, barkcloth, wallpaper and prints
Pattern Recognition
The pattern-makers. Repetition here is a kind of memory: of grandmothers' looms, parade umbrellas and strangers' clothes. Look long enough and the patterns start to look back.
In this room
- Priya Ramanathan
- Olu Adeyemi
- Hana Kovač
- Marcus Delacroix-Bell
- Sione Taufa
Room03
Tunde Bakare. Salvaged acrylic signage
Sculpture that won't sit still
Soft & Loud
Foam pretending to be marble, inflatables that sigh on a timer, and a totem built from shop signs. One of these sculptures is designed to be sat on. The invigilators will not tell you which.
Good to know: Inflatables move slowly every 20 minutes.
In this room
- Greta Lindqvist
- Tunde Bakare
- Camila Restrepo
- Ilse Vermeulen
- Jae-won Park
Room04
Noor Haddad. Neon
Neon, LED and slowed-down fireworks
Night Bloom
The lights go down and the work switches on. This is the dimmest room in MORE and the loudest in colour. There is a quiet corner with seating by the exit, marked on the sensory map.
Good to know: Low light. No flashing: light levels change slowly.
In this room
- Noor Haddad
- Felix Oyelaran-Stone
- Aiko Brennan
- Rafael Quispe
- Linnea Sato-Berg
Room05
Zanele Mokoena. Inkjet print
Photographs of people, together
Crowd Scenes
At rush hour, at weddings, at feasts, at closing time. Nobody here is alone and nobody is quiet. The biggest print in the room is the size of a London bus.
In this room
- Zanele Mokoena
- Arjun Mehta-Clarke
- Beatriz Salgado
- Levan Gelashvili
- Mei Lin Chua
Room06
The Confetti Collective. Mixed media, ongoing
The finale
Everything, Everywhere
A room-sized collage that grows every day, a mural that will be painted over when the show closes, and 40,000 postcards. Bring an offcut, any paper in any colour, and the Confetti Collective will add it to the wall.
Good to know: Busiest room on weekend afternoons.
In this room
- The Confetti Collective
- Oona Fitzgerald
- Fatou Diallo
- Luiz Ferreira
- Hollis Grey
Lates, talks & family days
Talk
Curator's tour: Why more?
13:00–14:00 · Meet at Room 1
Curator Dr Ama Okafor-Reyes walks through all six rooms and makes the case for excess.
Included with a MORE ticket
Book: Curator's tour: Why more?Family
Family day: Pattern Party
11:00–16:00 · Learning studio and Room 6
Print your own pattern, build a collage crown and add to the Confetti Collective's wall. Ages 3 and up, with grown-ups.
Free for under-12s with a MORE ticket
Book: Family day: Pattern PartyAccess
Relaxed opening
09:00–10:00 · All galleries
Before the gallery opens: lights up, sound down, fewer people, a chill-out space and staff trained in autism awareness.
Included with a MORE ticket; carers free
Book: Relaxed openingTalk
In conversation: Soft & Loud
18:30–19:30 · Auditorium
Camila Restrepo and Jae-won Park on sculpture you can breathe with, and sculpture you can sit on.
Included with a MORE ticket
Book: In conversation: Soft & LoudLate
MORE Late: Night Bloom
18:00–21:00 · Room 4 and the yard
Room 4 after dark, glow-in-the-dark drawing in the studio and a slow, low set from the Night Bloom sound system.
Included with a MORE ticket
Book: MORE Late: Night Bloom
Take some more home
MORE: the catalogue
320 pages, 6 fold-outs, 1 sticker sheet
£35
Limited print: Mediodía
Giclée on cotton rag, edition of 250
£60
MORE is more tote
Heavy canvas, screen-printed in London
£15
Membership
Members go free. Every day.
- Unlimited free entry to MORE and every exhibition
- Priority slots, including the members’ half hour at 09:30
- 10% off in the shop and canteen
- Preview evenings before shows open