Strings Attached | Chapter I

Simon Bejer, Tancredi di Carcaci, Kristy Chan, Lisa-Marie Harris, Radhika Khimji, Anna Perach, Laila Tara H and Matilda Sutton

30 September - 1 November, 2025

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.