Document: document
Rabbet Gallery, London
May 2025
Wai Ip, Megan James, Roland Knowlden
To document is an attempt to grasp time. This chronological temporality often ignites the cyclical processes of order, disorder, and reorder. ‘Document: document’, or to document a document, aims to meander through these shifts by methods of mapping and timekeeping. As each artist investigates these iterations at differing scales - from the personal, to societal, to geological - our notions of temporality begin to expand and contract beyond these constructed systems when faced with loss, conflict, and crisis.
Roland Knowlden
Wai Ip
Wai Ip (aka. Ip Wai Lung) (they/them) is a Hong Kong conceptual/performance artist currently based in London, whose work examines the impermanent nature of human experience. As a migrant, they navigates the intricate ontological terrain that is sculpted by the relentless forces of vicinity performing upon us, including geographic dislocation, fluctuating political scenarios, and the swift pace of technological progress. Their artwork not only provokes deep introspection but also acts as a mirror reflecting the myriad challenges and necessary adaptations faced by the identity of artist in our rapidly transforming society.
Wai’s artwork has been exhibited at galleries and art shows in New York, Hong Kong, Canada, France and across South East Asia. They is currently enrolled in the first year of MFA fine art at Goldsmiths, University of London.
www.identityofartist.com
Megan James
Megan James is a British-American multidisciplinary artist working in photography, filmmaking, painting, and sculpture. James studies water at the crux of survival and spirituality through an archaeological lens; seeing water as both weather’s protagonist and a site of pilgrimage. Imitating the current crisis of over human manipulation, James’ work involves processes of layering, documenting the separation from origins.
James was born in Surrey in 1994, raised in North London, and spent her teenage years in rural Germany. She completed her BA in Fine Art at California Baptist University in Southern California in 2015 going on to work as an archaeological illustrator and high school art teacher. James has exhibited in Los Angeles, Rhode Island, Berlin, and the Netherlands, and is currently in her second year of the MFA Programme at Goldsmiths, University of London, graduating in 2026.