CURA.

Further Down the Line is pleased to announce its fifth presentation, a solo exhibition by London-based artist Zazou Roddam. The exhibition marks the beginning of the 2026 exhibition programme, which will include the opening of new outposts across Europe and in the United States.

Roddam mines the interplay between humanity and public and private space through works which both expand and obscure systems of value and significance. Her methodology – often involving an astute excavation of found objects and film – divorces elements from their native contexts to ruminate on the boundaries of existing taxonomies. Door handles, aluminium fans and analogue photography are redeployed with poised detachment, embodying a measured scrutiny of their materiality and their relation to the unfolding present. In effect, seemingly minor histories are reframed to unsettle the legitimacy of knowledge and memory, so often inflected by today’s information age and its modes of dissemination – processes they duly engage yet subvert with quiet defiance.

Central to this investigation, Sunset Strip (2025) incorporates a large metal mount with a rectangular void, evoking the form of a letterbox. In confining the viewer’s gaze, the work draws attention to a set of postcards stowed underneath, approximating a narrowed perspective that casts the act of observation as a form of surveillance. Each of the postcards contains collaged imagery that depicts identical observations of London Bridge at sunset. Repeated, they convey the mediation of contemporary cities, conventionally distilled into endlessly reproduced clichés – wherein the complexity and nuance of place are flattened by marketable stereotypes.

While the work alludes to the proliferation and overabundance of imagery in the digital present, its use of postcards recalls a time when global perception and communication was, in part, shaped by their dominance. Embedded within such dissonance is a yearning to rediscover place – a reunification in which distortion, magnification, and abstraction aggregate a romanticised perspective yet frame cautionary reflection on our past, present and future.