Performance (EN)
Joshua Leon: An unfinished, ever evolving, history of Glass

In his performance An unfinished, ever evolving, history of Glass (2025), Joshua Leon presents a live reading of a text written by the artist in response to his newly commissioned installation Glass (the memory I cannot remember) 1–5 (2025).

The installation features five yellow stained glass panels that use light as both material and metaphor – an intervention that subtly transforms the atmosphere of the space and reshapes the viewer’s relationship to the outside world. The artist has chosen yellow to represent the stain of memory, the colour stands in for a synesthetic or repressed memory. Through the lens of his Jewish heritage, Leon reflects on glass as a wounded material – delicate yet enduring, a silent witness to history, rupture and the persistence of elusive memory.

The performance invites contemplation on how memory is mediated through materiality, how histories are absorbed into spatial experience, and how absence and fragility might become perceptible through light, language and colour.

The performance is free with a valid exhibition ticket.

Joshua Leon

Joshua Leon (b. 1990, London, United Kingdom) is an artist and writer. Leon received his PhD from the Royal College of Art, London. Selected exhibitions include Chisenhale Gallery, London; 49 Nord 6 Est – Frac Lorraine, Metz (both 2024); Kunstverein München, Munich (2023); Barbican, London (2022); Daily Practice, Rotterdam (2020); and the 10th Berlin Biennale (2018). Leon lives and works in London and was artist in residence with PART International Art Residency Austria in June and July 2025.