Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Huang Po-Chih, and Ghazaleh Avarzamani

The Hayward Gallery announces a new series of free exhibitions in partnership with RC Foundation, Taiwan (ROC).

The Hayward Gallery, in partnership with the RC Foundation, Taiwan (R.O.C.), has organised a series of three solo exhibitions by artists Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Huang Po-Chih and Ghazaleh Avarzamani, in the Gallery’s HENI Project Space. Though their approaches are distinctly different, these artists share an interest in inventively and ingeniously reflecting on a wide spectrum of socio-political concerns, from the destruction of the environment to the impacts of globalisation to new forms of societal control. 

Naomi Rincón Gallardo: Sonnet of Vermin
June 18–September 1, 2024

Working primarily in video, Mexican artist Naomi Rincón Gallardo creates dreamlike “counter-worlds” addressing colonialism’s ongoing impact on social, political, and environmental issues. Her video Sonnet of Vermin (2022) features animals from Mesoamerican myths—a bat, a snake, a choir of frogs, and a scorpion—traversing dystopian Oaxaca. Communicating via radio signals, these creatures of the underworld seek to synchronise with one another and the dead. Broadcasting from reclaimed ruins, the singing vermin call for solidarity amid social and ecological devastation. Rincón Gallardo interweaves cuir/queer resistance, pre-colonial folklore, DIY aesthetics, music, dance, and humour to craft surreal narratives that critique violence and exploitation in the region.

Naomi Rincón Gallardo: Sonnet of Vermin is curated by Suzanna Petot, Hayward Gallery Assistant Curator.

Huang Po-Chih: Waves
October 9, 2024–January 5, 2025

Taiwanese artist Huang Po-Chih reflects on the socio-political impacts of the globalised garment industries in East Asia in Waves, the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK. Featuring new video and text-based work as part of a presentation of installation, photography and sculpture, the exhibition draws upon the artist’s family heritage—particularly his mother’s experiences as a garment worker in Northern Taiwan. Po-Chih collates the personal narratives of individuals involved in the garment industry across China, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan from the 1960’s up to the present day. 

Huang Po-Chih: Waves is curated by Katie Guggenheim, Hayward Gallery Assistant Curator with Hannah Martin, Hayward Gallery Curatorial Assistant. 

Ghazaleh Avarzamani
June 10–August 31, 2025

Ghazaleh Avarzamani is an Iranian-Canadian artist based in London, known for her diverse practice spanning sculptures, installations, and public interventions. Her work explores game psychology and play, examining institutional mechanisms of control. Avarzamani’s exhibition draws inspiration from a folk song that describes a chain of events where each element faces eradication by a superseding element. The exhibition is a playful constellation of objects and installations that create a space to experience failures, contingencies, fallacies, urgencies and emergencies. Avarzamani will also present a concurrent exhibition at the Delfina Foundation in London, in dialogue with her Hayward Gallery show.

Ghazaleh Avarzamani’s exhibition is curated by Thomas Sutton, Hayward Gallery Assistant Curator.

About the Hayward Gallery
The Hayward Gallery, part of the Southbank Centre, has a long history of presenting work by the world’s most adventurous and innovative artists including major solo shows by both emerging and established artists and dynamic group exhibitions. They include those by Bridget Riley, Bruce Nauman, Anish Kapoor, Lee Bul, Tracey Emin, Jeremy Deller, Kader Attia, Mike Nelson and Tavares Strachan as well as influential group exhibitions such as.In the Black Fantastic, Dear Earth, and When Forms Come Alive.

About the RC Foundation, Taiwan (ROC)
Founded in 1995 by Rong Chuan Chen, RC Foundation has been a visionary force in promoting Taiwanese contemporary art on the global stage. An active champion in fostering cultural and artistic exchanges, RC Foundation has been supporting artists, curators and independent art spaces from Taiwan through grants and partnerships, both locally and internationally. These long-term relationships have nurtured and enriched numerous artistic projects from different perspectives, generating invaluable connections between Taiwan’s contemporary art practitioners and their global counterparts. 

About the HENI Project Space
Since opening in 2007, the HENI Project Space at the Hayward Gallery has presented free exhibitions from a wide-ranging group of innovative international artists, including many UK premieres. Over the past 15 years, the HENI Project Space has served as a crucial portal of cross-cultural connection, featuring artists from five continents and over 40 different countries.