Building Mythologies: Betty C Fan, Dora Lam, Filippo Muzi Falconi, Leyla Borovalı & Myriame Dachraoui at Siegfried Contemporary

In the paintings of Dora Lam, this uncertainty begins with the photographic image. Lam draws on colonial and personal archives, isolating the faces of women from their original settings.

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For Myriame Dachraoui, personal memory is closely entwined with the imaginative world of Tunisian folklore. Originally trained as an architect, she creates paintings in which familiar interiors acquire strange proportions and uncertain perspectives.

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An altogether different kind of inherited knowledge informs the ceramics of Leyla Borovalı. Originally from İzmir, Borovalı draws on textile traditions from the Aegean and wider Mediterranean, particularly the intricate techniques of oya lacework.

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Filippo Muzi Falconi approaches the relationship between material and history through his longstanding fascination with the natural world. He spent childhood summers on his father's farm in Liguria, exploring the landscape and making things from what he found there.

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The work of Betty C Fan introduces an acoustic dimension to the exhibition. Born in Taipei and raised between Hong Kong and the United States, Fan trained in classical music before turning towards sculpture and experimental sound.

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