
Condo London 2025
Union Pacific hosting blank projects & Gypsum Gallery
Dineo Seshee Bopape, Nada Elkalaawy, Velma Rosai-Makhandia & Zayn Qahtani
17 Goulston St
Preview weekend: 18 & 19 January 2025, 12-6 pm
For Condo London 2025, Union Pacific hosts blank projects (Cape Town, South Africa), and Gypsum Gallery (Cairo, Egypt), presenting works by Zayn Qahtani, Velma Rosai-Makhandia, Dineo Seshee Bopape, and Nada Elkalaawy. Each of these artists uses memory (whether truth or fiction) as a vessel to explore questions of loss, connection to place, and femininity. Together, their practices tread the line between the real and the remembered; the mundane and the magical; life and afterlife.
Pictured: Velma Rosai-Makhandia, celestial bathhouses, 2024, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 128.7 x 142.7 cm

Condo London 2025: Union Pacific hosting blank projects & Gypsum Gallery, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Nada Elkalaawy, Velma Rosai-Makhandia & Zayn Qahtani, installation view, Union Pacific

Velma Rosai Makhandia, trees that live long have spirits in them so you shouldn't cut them down, 2024, acrylic and oil pastels on canvas, 313.9 x 132.8 cm

Zayn Qahtani, Entering Soma (Drinking From The Starpool) (detail), 2025, chrome gilt polylactide, abalone shell, lapis lazuli pigment, amethyst pigment, watercolour, coloured pencil, recycled cotton paper, baltic birch, 115 x 70 cm

Dineo Seshee Bopape, we need the memories of all our members, 2024, bronze, steel, 36 x 50 x 3 cm

Zayn Qahtani, Entering Soma (Drinking From The Starpool), 2025, chrome gilt polylactide, abalone shell, lapis lazuli pigment, amethyst pigment, watercolour, coloured pencil, recycled cotton paper, baltic birch, 115 x 70 cm

Condo London 2025: Union Pacific hosting blank projects & Gypsum Gallery, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Nada Elkalaawy, Velma Rosai-Makhandia & Zayn Qahtani, installation view, Union Pacific

Condo London 2025: Union Pacific hosting blank projects & Gypsum Gallery, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Nada Elkalaawy, Velma Rosai-Makhandia & Zayn Qahtani, installation view, Union Pacific

Velma Rosai-Makhandia, celestial bathhouses, 2024, acrylic and oil pastel on canvas, 128.7 x 142.7 cm

Condo London 2025: Union Pacific hosting blank projects & Gypsum Gallery, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Nada Elkalaawy, Velma Rosai-Makhandia & Zayn Qahtani, installation view, Union Pacific

Velma Rosai Makhandia, trees that live long have spirits in them so you shouldn't cut them down (detail), 2024, acrylic and oil pastels on canvas, 313.9 x 132.8 cm