HAPAX welcomes JERMAINE FRANCIS for the first exhibition in our West London space dedicated to showing new or experimental forms of lens-based art

From 4th-22nd June 2025, Jermaine Francis takes over the HAPAX Living Room to present his multi-format response, ‘Lost in Music: A Post-Industrial Dreamscape / Living Room Remix’. Transporting us on a kaleidoscopic journey through Post-industrial Britain, hyper-productivity, political ruptures, dance music, labour, race and its intersections with class. Francis’ work is a purposeful collage of contemporary and archival material in a cacophonic style that mimics the wasteland of information we’re often presented with. Fast streams of internet visuals that we can’t fully grasp, video footage of dancefloors, communities, industrial spaces and urban regeneration.

Accompanying Francis’ video piece and photographic works will be a new audio piece and a radio broadcast in collaboration with Ibrahim Azab, presented in this West London flat surrounded by a future urban regeneration project.

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Event:  JERMAINE FRANCIS - Lost in Music: A Post-Industrial Dreamscape / Living Room Remix

Opening Party

June 4: 18.00-21.00

Exhibition continues   

June 5-11: 10.00 – 16.00

June 12-22: by appointment (email editors@hapaxmagazine.com)

Artist conversation   

June 8: 15.00 – 16.00 Jermaine Francis will be in conversation about his practice with Kobi Prempeh. Spaces are free but limited please see the Eventbrite.

HAPAX Idea Snack: Special Guest, Jermaine Francis

June 22: 13.00 - 15.00 Sign up soon for our second HAPAX Idea Snack peer to peer photography discussion group, where we welcome our special guest Jermaine Francis to the discussions as we learn about your recent projects. Spaces are free but limited, Eventbrite coming soon.

Finissage Tea and Cake

June 22: 15.00 Join us to celebrate Jermaine’s HAPAX Living Room exhibition, with tea and cake.

Address

HAPAX Living Room
1st Floor, Empress Studios, 17 Empress Place, London SW6 1TT (Tube: West Brompton / Earls Court)   

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JERMAINE FRANCIS is a multi-disciplinary artist working primarily with photography, video, and other mediums. His practice is characterized by a deep investigation into the parameters of these mediums, and how they shape our understanding of visual culture. He explores their roles in storytelling and the construction of memory within contemporary and historical narratives. Francis has exhibited in shows at the International Center of Photography, New York; The National Portrait Gallery, London; Haus Wien, Austria;  galeriepcp Paris, Centre for British Photography, London; The Saatchi Gallery, London; Pembroke JCR Gallery, Oxford; The Camden Arts Centre, London; Sherbet Green, London; Peckham24 Photo Festival 2024; Impressions Gallery, Bradford; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London; Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, and will appear in the 2025 edition of Photo London.  jermainefrancis.studio

IBRAHIM AZAB is a London based Artist and Curator who shifts between Sculpture, Performance and Photography. Ideas of Process, perception, and information form the centre of Azab’s practice whilst surrounding research of his work investigates the relationship between the subconscious and reality, material and immaterial within  hyper-consumer and visual culture. His work explores the photograph as object, through digital and physical intervention, with a focus towards the movement and transfer of information. Significantly the work of Ibrahim Azab is concerned with failure and representation within the photographic medium, playfully surfacing the act of seeing and unseeing through phenomenological understanding of the surface. ibrahimazab.com

KOBI PREMPEH is a curator at fynn studio, the London based art collective with curatorial credits at Tate Modern, Saatchi Gallery and 180 Studios. Purposed with celebrating community through contemporary art, fynn studio returns to themes around rave as part of its cultural storytelling to encourage the recognition of overlooked groups and the interruption of pre-established narratives. fynn studio has been a consultant to Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, on Black culture and creativity since 2023. thefynn.com

HAPAX MAGAZINE is founded and co-edited by Christiane Monarchi and Gordon MacDonald. HAPAX Magazine takes its name from the literary term ‘hapax legomenon’ describing something unique, new and ‘said only once’. Twice a year, HAPAX commissions artists and curators to produce new photographic projects which are shared only in the pages of the publication and not on the internet. Proceeds from sales of magazines are reinvested into future publishing commissions, to support photographic projects and the creative professionals making them.

From Spring 2025, HAPAX presents a new project and exhibition space, HAPAX Living Room, dedicated to showing new or experimental forms of lens-based art in the living room of our office, part of the creative spaces of Empress Studios, in Earls Court, London. For more information and details on upcoming exhibitions, how to visit us, propose a project or take part in an event, please look out for announcements here or contact us.

With special thanks to galeriepcp, Paris for their collaboration. galeriepcp.com