Pipeline is delighted to present Strings Attached, a group exhibition in two chapters co-curated and envisioned by collector and writer Bella Kesoyan.

Bringing together sixteen emerging and established artists, Strings Attached embraces the intersections of art, music, literature, poetry, and performance. Each artist has selected a book from the Kesoyan book collection as a reference for a new work, without restrictions on medium, form, or scale. The resulting responses forge dialogue across disciplines, asking what new spaces of exchange can emerge when creative processes are set in motion.

Split into two chapters, Strings Attached unfolds across both levels of the gallery with intimate groupings of four artists per floor. Chapter One includes explorations of tactility, the female body, and gestures of weaving and stitching, as well as new perspectives on abstraction and materiality. Chapter Two initiates conceptual debates on time, form, and the book as a collaborative and poetic object. In weaving past and present, image and word, Strings Attached reactivates the artist’s book as a living, generative form.

Participating artists include Anna Perach, Radhika Khimji, Lisa-Marie Harris, Matilda Sutton, Simon Bejer, Tancredi di Carcaci, Kristy Chan, Laila Tara H, Leon Scott-Engel, Paul Hodgson, Katy Stubbs, Nika Neelova, Gabriel Kidd, Norberto Spina, Anna Ilsley, and Sophie Seita. Musician and composer Isabella Summers will also present a sound and spoken-word performance responding to one of the selected books.

Kesoyan’s book collection, assembled over years of academic and artistic research into the medium, spans more than 500 book objects and over a century of creative history. Many are rarely seen works, including a signed edition of Andy Warhol’s Wild Raspberries, Joan Miró’s Courtisan Grotesque with Iliazd, Leonor Fini’s visual interpretations of Edgar Allan Poe, and Henri Matisse’s illustrated Pasiphaé. A curated selection from this collection will be on view alongside the artists’ responses.

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Bella Kesoyan is a London-based art historian, writer, and curator. Her doctoral research at the Courtauld Institute of Art examines the influence of mid-twentieth-century French publishing houses on contemporary American artists’ books. Kesoyan collaborates across a range of areas in the industry to provide historical context for exhibitions and collections. Recent projects include Sir John Soane’s Museum and the Design Museum. Kesoyan edited and co-authored Oscar Wilde: De Profundis (2024), a limited-edition catalogue exploring Wilde’s legacy for contemporary artists, and her first publication, The Sublime in Nature, won Best Book at the Digital Printer Awards 2021. She holds an MA from the University of Manchester, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and MSc degrees from London Business School and Bayes Business School. Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Bella actively supports London art institutions and artist residencies.

Strings Attached

Chapter I | 30 September - 1 November, 2025

Chapter II | 20 November - 20 December, 2025