Décalé Screening: South Florida Sky
Screening of Laila Majid & Louis Blue Newby's film 'South Florida Sky' as part of Décalé at Standalone, London on May 23, 2025.
Décalé Screening: South Florida Sky
Screening of Laila Majid & Louis Blue Newby's film 'South Florida Sky' as part of Décalé at Standalone, London on May 23, 2025.
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Fri 23 May
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Standalone
Standalone, London
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#artistspotlight LAILA MAJID & LOUIS BLUE NEWBY screening as part of Décalé | 23.05.25 @standalone_london Laila Majid and Louis Blue Newby’s shared practice is a space for the artist duo to explore the way images gain meaning through being shared and distributed between individuals both privately and through social media and the public sphere. The duo collate images from many sources, both printed and online that range from magazines, porn sites, online forums and comics. The source images are mostly fast-moving and disposable, part of the constant flow of visual information that surrounds us. Majid and Newby’s practice slows these images down by destabilizing or de-anchoring the image through processes such as scanning, drawing and layering. For Décalé, Laila Majid and Louis Blue Newby will screen ‘south florida sky', a film that reimagines the comic hero Swamp Thing through animation and neural network imagery, here read as a vessel for envisaging new and radical modes of collec