Organised by: Display Fever and Teaspoon Projects
Hosted by: vitruta, Kings Cross
Address: Unit 96, Coal Drops Yard, London N1C 4DQ
Display Fever and Teaspoon Projects warmly invite you to a video installation of Ela Kazdal’s short film if you seek amy, recently showcased at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Onion City Experimental Film Festival Chicago and Leiden Shorts. This event celebrates the collaborative relationships between the curatorial platforms and the artist, highlighting their shared commitment to exploring contemporary themes through innovative artistic practices.
if you seek amy is a two-minute whirlwind of halftone dots, photograms, vinyl stickers, and lace, the film deconstructs iconic pop stardom—from Britney Spears to Beyoncé—into faint, flickering reverberations. This video installation extends the dialogue initiated in The Luster, an exhibition organised by Display Fever at Vitruta in May 2025, unravelling the screen-mediated allure of Y2K celebrity through layers of distortion and decay.
Coinciding with London Gallery Weekend, the evening will feature curated visuals, a communal Polaroid camera, and a space for playful self-mythologising, transforming the screening and gathering into a collective luster object—a gleaming site for our own fractured, glittering projections.
Biographies:
Ela Kazdal (b. Istanbul, Turkey) is a London-based artist working across moving image, sculpture, installation, and print. She engages with film as both material and experience, deconstructing its forms to explore how images exist beyond the screen. Her work has been presented at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL); Royal College of Art (London, UK); Firstsite (Colchester, UK); Fabrica Gallery (Brighton, UK); Everyman Cinema (London, UK); Æden (Berlin, DE); Swiss Cottage Gallery (London, UK) and more recently at Filmverkstaden‘s Fringe Gallery (Vaasa, FIN). She is currently a video editor at MUBI.
Teaspoon Projects, launched in early 2025 by Gigi Surel, is a curatorial initiative focused on contemporary storytelling across various media, with collaboration at its core. Through pop-up exhibitions and dynamic programming, it brings together a range of artistic voices to explore the ways art connects with everyday realities. By creating spaces for dialogue and engagement, Teaspoon Projects encourages new perspectives on artistic practices.
Display Fever (DF) is an art platform that currently supports 21 artists through its online gallery and a series of exhibitions at various locations. The platform is dedicated to supporting artists who challenge biopolitical and economic structures through socially engaged practices. Founded to address emotional, financial, and accessibility challenges in London’s art scene, DF focuses on creating intimate exhibition spaces and amplifying the voices of women and queer artists from diverse international backgrounds. It fosters a balance across all forms of artistic expression, supporting a broad range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, video, photography, installation, and performance.