Grounding Practice: Louis Morlæ & Aziza Kadyri

Book tickets

Thu 10 Apr 2025

18.45 - 20.30

£8 / £6 concessions

Tickets available on the door

Screening Room

South Wing

Part of Somerset House Studios

Join resident artists Aziza Kadyri and Louis Morlæ for an in-conversation with Maitreyi Maheshwari.

A practice-sharing session with Somerset House Studios' Creative Technology Fellows, Aziza Kadyri (2024-2025) and Louis Morlae (2023-2024). They will be talking about worldbuilding and digital speculative environments with Maitreyi Maheshwari, Head of Programme at FACT, Liverpool.

About Aziza Kadyri

Aziza Kadyri is a London-based Uzbek multidisciplinary artist working across textiles, sculpture, new technologies, experimental costume, and performance.

Her practice merges collaboration and interdisciplinary methods to create immersive physical and digital experiences. She co-founded Qizlar, a grassroots collective advocating for social change through intersectional and interdisciplinary approaches.

Exploring themes of migration, displacement, identity, and feminism, her work reflects on the experiences of women in Central Asia and its diaspora. She integrates XR, AR, VR, and AI to expand artistic research and engagement while reinterpreting cultural heritage—particularly textiles and costume—through contemporary technology and alternative mythmaking.

About Louis Morlæ

Louis Morlæ’s practice operates at the intersection between two modes of creativity: that of industrial automation and manufacture, and that of character-driven narrative. The result is work which looks not to a distant and abstracted future, but to the furthest and most tantalising edges of what might be possible within the current moment. Seamlessly integrating video and sculpture, his in-depth, multimedia worldbuilding explores our cultural and social engagement with tech, the metaverse, and the digital realm from a perspective on continuing technological advancement that is neither wholly utopian or dystopian.

With thanks to the Garfield Weston Foundation