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In Search of Incredible
Julianknxx

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LUMA Arles is proud to present In Search of Incredible, a new exhibition by Sierra Leone-born, London-based poet, artist, and filmmaker Julianknxx, featuring a major new commission. Working across film, sound, and performance, the artist has developed a singular practice that brings poetry into dialogue with moving-image, creating works where memory is carried, spoken, and continually reshaped. His work explores the resonances of migration and diaspora, weaving intimate narratives with collective histories, and giving presence to voices and experiences often absent from dominant accounts.

At the center of the exhibition, the new commission unfolds as an immersive environment in which image, sound, and language converge. Here, belonging emerges as something fragile and active, formed through transmission, inheritance, and acts of remembrance. Julianknxx approaches storytelling as a space of encounter, where personal testimony becomes a way to reflect on broader questions of identity and continuity.

In Search of Incredible highlights Julianknxx’s distinctive ability to create works of deep emotional and formal intensity. His practice expands how stories can be told and experienced, affirming his position as one of the most compelling voices of his generation. The exhibition reflects LUMA Arles’s ongoing commitment to supporting artists who challenge and renew our understanding of image, history, and the politics of voice.

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From 1 May 2026 to 10 January 2027
The Tower, Underground , Level -3
Julianknxx, Still from What Colours Can We Dream In This Night Filled With Salt - 2112 x 1188
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Julianknxx, Still from What Colours Can We Dream In This Night Filled With Salt_, 2025
© Studioknxx
Julianknxx, Still from What Colours Can We Dream In This Night Filled With Salt_, 2025
© Studioknxx
Julian Knxx - 1038 x 1374

Julianknxx

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Julianknxx was in residence at LUMA Arles from mid April to June 2025.

Julianknxx is a poet, artist, and filmmaker.

The polyphonic nature of Julianknxx’s work is indicative of his expansive practice, which is rooted in poetry but extends into performance, film, music and sculpture. Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Julianknxx draws on his personal experiences to broaden perspectives on the history and culture of Africa and its diasporas. Inspired by oral history traditions and working with a distinctive aesthetic approach, his films invite us to consider how we construct both local and global narratives, while reflecting on how it feels to exist in liminal spaces.

His work has been shown at galleries and museums worldwide, with his acclaimed first institutional solo show Chorus In Rememory of Flight at the Barbican, London (2023), called “transcendent and poignant” by the Evening Standard.

Recent group shows include A World in Common at Tate Modern, London (2023); Rites of Passage at Gagosian, London (2023); and To Be Held at Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate (2023). Previous participations include Whitechapel Gallery Open, London (2022); Nocturnal Creatures at Whitechapel Gallery (2021); Lux at 180 The Strand, London (2021); The View from There at Sadie Coles HQ, London (2021); and more.

Performances include Chorus in Flight at St James’s Church (2023), BURO Stedelijk (2024), and The Philadelphia Museum of Art (2024); Art Basel Conversations: Sonic Performance, Basel (2023); and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2023).