Call for Art "Membrane", London SE1

About the Exhibition

Membrane explores the selective, porous boundaries we hold — what we let through, what we filter out, and the quiet logic that decides it. A membrane is never a wall. It is thinner than that, and more honest. It lets some things through and stops others — they breathe, filter, absorb, and leak. The only question is: What passes through you, and what doesn't? Every work is an answer.

What to Submit

• Up to 5 high-quality images (minimum 300dpi) or a video link (maximum 6 minutes)
• Title, medium, dimensions, and year for each work
• Artist statement — 150 to 300 words — explaining your relationship to the theme and how the work responds
• Short biography — 200 words maximum
• Contact information and a link to your website or portfolio

Artist Statement Guidance

The statement matters. Be specific. Name the relationship, the material, the moment, if you can. Tell us what the membrane in your life lets through, and what it stops. Tell us what the work does in relation to it — whether the work opens the boundary, reinforces it, or simply sits inside its permeability. Generality is the enemy of a good statement. Start with what you let through as a fact, not the concept.

Suggested Approaches

• The body — skin, breath, blood, the porous edges of the physical self
• A relationship — the selective closeness we allow certain people and no one else
• Language — what gets said, and what stays just behind the teeth
• Identity — the parts of yourself shown to the world, and the parts kept private
• Culture or migration — the porous, contested boundaries between belonging and otherness
• Digital life — the membrane between the self we perform online and the one underneath
• Grief or healing — what a body lets in and processes, and what it can't yet absorb
• Ecology — filtration, osmosis, exchange between organism and environment
• Or something else entirely — something you filter, admit, or resist that has no easy name