On 16 November 2025, participants are invited to explore the House of Annetta and the surrounding streets of Brick Lane. This is a three-hour, walk-and-paint workshop led by artist Ruohan Yu, inviting participants to observe, sketch, and take rubbings of the objects we encounter, tracing the textures of the buildings and the streets. Then we will bring the paintings back to the House of Annetta to reconstruct the space through personal or collective imagination.
As part of the scattered-site exhibition-event In Between Zones – A London Art Guerrilla Tour, ‘Zones of Estrangement’ unfolds within Highgate Wood, an ancient woodland in North London. We approach this woodland not merely as a site but as an experimental ground—an interlocutor, a living stage upon which displacement, dislocation, and contemporary forms of spirituality are enacted. The participating artists activate the woodland as a negotiated yet interstitial space, where the “parochial domain of ‘others’” becomes sensorially tangible, relationally palpable and socially generative. The negotiation takes place between the artists and the more-than-human environment, while fissure signifies the precarious adventure of temporary spatial borrowing. The exhibited works frame displacement not as loss but as a condition for emergence; spirituality not as transcendence but as immanent encounter; and ecopoiesis not as restoration but as co-creation with the living forest.