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dining performances

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Starting with my performance at Central Saint Martins, I’ve been developing a series of works that transform the act of dining into a performative and participatory experience, where audiences are invited to engage with the narrative, contribute to the dialogue, and form connections through shared moments around the table.

 

Where the table becomes more than a surface—it transforms into a stage for storytelling, connection, and shared experiences. In my practice, dinner parties are living artworks, crafted to engage, provoke, and inspire. Each gathering centers around the universal act of dining, where food and conversation serve as tools to explore identity, memory, and the stories we carry. From intimate tables adorned with symbolic objects to larger communal settings, these dinners invite participants to share not just a meal but a moment—layered with meaning, dialogue, and reflection.

 

At these gatherings, the table is alive. It witnesses, absorbs, and projects the collective energy of those who sit around it. Whether reimagined as a picnic in a sculpture park or a curated dining experience in a gallery, each dinner party is unique—a performance shaped by its guests. I invite you to take a seat, share a story, and leave your mark. Together, we’ll create connections that extend beyond the table, weaving a tapestry of shared experiences and lasting memories.

Images From Central Saint Martins Degree Show

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Images From MIXTAPE at Pi Artworks Gallery

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Centred around the notion of an artistic family - with Pi Artworks at its core - the works in this exhibition have been proposed by the gallery’s own UK artists and team. Featuring sculpture, textile, photography, film, painting and performance, the show brings together a unique collection of works by emerging and non-represented artists in our London space. The result being an assortment, or Mixtape, that celebrates artmaking unrestrained by medium, geography, or career. While the exhibition undoubtedly comprises an eclectic mix of works, drawn together through circumstance rather than theme, connections inevitably begin to form between these artists. Duru Bebekoglu’s Dinner Party performance sets this precedent, with the work being activated by artists and visitors as they sit, eat and converse.

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Images From The Shadow Picnic at the Frieze Sculpture Park

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Featuring Cydney Lovett-Downey, Kate Howe, Pati Florit & Pedro Resendez.

To celebrate The Shadow, Albano Hernandez’s cerebral painting currently on show as part of Frieze Sculpture Park, Pi Artworks is hosting an on-site performance led by Duru Bebekoglu. Open to all, join us for a chlorophyll-packed picnic to discuss and engage with Albano’s living artwork.

 

Created by the artist using water-based paint, the life-size silhouette sits directly on the grass itself, appearing as a real, physical, shadow. Hernandez plays into his ongoing interest in manipulation of materiality, creating a reflection of the sculpture park that speaks to a wider ecological issue of deforestation and time. Albano took part in Duru Bebekoglu’s debut iteration of her Dining Table performance at Central Saint Martin’s in June 2024, and now, it takes on new ‘picnic’ form. Embracing the tactility and The Shadow’s interactive positioning in the park, this open air performance will be a chance to reflect on the implications of sustainable artmaking and how we engage with public works. 

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