Monday 10 August 2026, 7.30pm
An assortment of sensory explorations designed to work in tandem to provide a night of full immersion expanding on traditional notions of experience. A silent film, a bespoke scent, a reading and a musical performance.
The event brings together three London based artists: multi instrumentalist Laila Sakini, filmmaker Rebecca Salvadori with writer and artist Ella Fleck.
There will be a screening of seminal silent film EMPATHY by Rebecca Salvadori. Ella Fleck will recite a reading and emit a bespoke scent made for the occasion via an automated machine. Multi instrumentalist Laila Sakini will perform an extended set of new and known works from her discography.
Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, producer and performer Laila Sakini is London based, Melbourne born.
Her major works include Like A Gun (EP), Vivienne (LP), Strada (EP), Into The Traffic, Under The Moonlight (LP), Princess Diana of Wales (LP), Cupo (LP w/ Valentina Magalett) and Figures (LP w/ Dr Lucy Van) among several single, EPs and cassette release on her series Mystery Messages.
Working with piano, voice, guitar and silence Laila creates dynamic and textured environments that provide the listener with space to develop their own meanings and responses.
Laila has performed at: Cafe Oto, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Berlin Atonal, De Nor, Listen! festival, Gaudeamus Festival, Meakusma x Arkaoda, The London Handel Festival, Wunkderkammer Festival, Ponto d’Orvalho, Intonal Festival and among others.
She has been featured several times in The Wire Magazine, graced the cover of Switzerland’s cult Zweikommasiben music magazine, been featured on BBC1, in Frances’ Les Inrockuptibles, LA’s AQNB, Belgium’s Gonzo magazine, Italy’s Blow Up and in several specials on NTS Radio, LYL, Dublab, Red Light.
Rebecca Salvadori is an Italian-Australian artist and filmmaker working across moving image, live performance, and installation. Over the past fifteen years, she has developed a distinctive body of work at the intersection of contemporary art and experimental music, creating intimate portraits of musicians, clubs, and communities that blur the boundaries between documentary, expanded cinema, and performance. Rather than treating film as a fixed medium, she approaches it as a way of thinking, developing works that take the form of films, performances, site-specific commissions, and expanded moving-image installations
Selected works include Rave Trilogy (2017–2020), The Sun Has No Shadow (2022), TRESOR TAPES (2022), Messengers (2022–ongoing), A Forbidden Distance (2024), and Not Running (2026). Collaboration is central to her practice, and she has worked with artists and musicians including Lucy Railton, Nhu Xuan Hua, Mark Fell, Coby Sey, Okkyung Lee, Saint Abdullah, Eomac, Charlie Hope, and Alabaster DePlume.
Her work has been presented at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) London, FOMU – Photography Museum Antwerp, Triennale Milano, the Serralves Museum, Porto, and the Timișoara Architecture Biennial (BETA), among others, as well as at major experimental music festivals including Sonic Acts Biennale, CTM, Berlin Atonal, Unsound, Rewire, Le Guess Who?, and Sónar. In 2025, she received the Italian Council Grant from the Italian Ministry of Culture to develop and internationally produce her first feature-length film.
Ella Fleck (b. 1993, London, UK) is a London-based artist and writer. Her practice examines the entanglement of psychosexual ideologies within invisible systems of technology. She works across installation - using infiltration, sound, architecture, language, scent and chemical-signalling.
She holds a BA in English Literature from Exeter University (2014) and is completing an MFA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths University of London (2026). Upcoming exhibitions include Goldsmiths MFA Degree show (2026); Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles, CA (2026) and Matt’s Gallery, London, UK (2027). Previous exhibitions have taken place at 15th Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas, LT (2025); Piccallili Gallery, London, UK (2026); St Margaret’s House Chapel, London, UK (2025); Season 4, Episode 6, London, UK (2024); Nada House, Governor’s Island, NY (2024) and Semester 9, Amsterdam, NL (2024). Fleck’s work features in publications such as i-D, Plaster, The Toe Rag and Emergent.
