Doublewalker explores processes of repetition and fragmentation, and the differences that emerge through them. Taking its title from the etymology of ‘doppelgänger’, meaning ‘twin stranger’, the exhibition considers how objects and spaces can appear familiar while remaining slightly out of reach.

Bringing together seven artists working across sculpture, installation, and sound, the exhibition is curated by SET studio member Laura Higgins and presented at SET Vauxhall.

About the exhibition

Using processes of fragmentation and remaking, Doublewalker examines the presence of distant yet recognisable symbols within contemporary culture. Through this, works repeat and rework familiar forms, drawing attention to the small differences between things that might at first appear the same.

Across the exhibition, artists explore personal relationships with place, often focusing on sites that might otherwise go unnoticed.

Presented as one of the first exhibitions in SET Vauxhall, Doublewalker responds directly to its surroundings. As a repurposed building shaped through reuse, elements of its previous life remain visible. Through site-specific installation, the exhibition nods to these prior uses and the building’s existing structure, while giving it a new identity within the exhibition.

The exhibition also focuses on the spaces between objects and how we experience them alongside others. By repeating and breaking down forms, the works invite us to look more closely at objects and environments as their meaning begins to shift.

Some works also touch on wider themes including colonial histories, inheritance and self-positioning within the current postmodern context.

Through these approaches, Doublewalker considers how repetition and difference shape the way we understand objects, spaces and the world around us.

A live performance by Nell Castor will take place on the opening evening at 7:30pm. The work imitates the selling of medicine, creating opportunities for interaction between the artist and visitors.

Event details

Opening: Thursday 9 April, 6-9pm
Dates: 10-26 April
Opening hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm
Location: SET Vauxhall, Camelford House, 89 Albert Embankment, London
Admission: Free

Contributing artists

Nell Castor

Nell Castor is a sculptor and digital artist. Her work is founded on a personal lexicon of color and symbolic characters that wrestle with universal human emotions. Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, she now lives and works in London.

Website: https://nellclo.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nell.castor/

Suzanne Elven

Suzanne Elven navigates time at an angle, often recording collision and motion from several temporal stand points. Her current focus lies in foregrounding objects that come into zones of impact – drums, tennis rackets. Elven’s research lies in the balance between fiction and reality, drawing from recent work in set building which has her considering the lifespans and solidity of worlds.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/suzanne.elven/

Kairi Tokoro 

Kairi Tokoro is a Japanese artist based in London. His practice explores sound, sculpture, and performance. His work focuses on the interdependence of objects and human life—how human interaction with materials alters their shape, color, and function, and in turn, how these changes affect us.

Website: https://kairitokoro.com/works
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kairitokoro/

Laura Higgins

Laura Higgins is a sculptor and visual artist who documents an ongoing process-led inquiry into connecting material with meaning. Often interested in fabrication processes, ways of bespoke making and the sites that facilitate making, the findings around new processes are employed and reimagined to evoke contemplation around hidden sites and personal memories. 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lhiggins1616/

Beatriz Mayorga

At its core, Bea Mayorga’s art practice investigates the concept of the replica, exploring how copying can both transmit knowledge and act as a tool of cultural control by focussing on materials that are dismissed as “fake”, such as imitation marble, artificial tears and false gold.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beaamayorga/

Elena Garcia-Sirvent

Elena Garcia-Sirvent is a sound and video artist based in London. Her practice explores the intersection of sound, materiality, and perception. Focusing on how sound can interrupt, penetrate, and reshape both physical and psychological environments. Inspired by ‘Foley’, She references the reproduction of everyday sounds, how sounds can be reimagined, reproduced and displaced.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elegarciasirv/

Isabel Jones

Isabel Jones’ work converges painting and sculpture. Exploring personal and communal cyclical mourning rhythms. Integrating personified objects with the found and handmade. Archiving care, love, and death.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/izzygj0nes/

About SET’s Associate Members Programme

This exhibition is presented as part of SET’s Associate Members Programme, which offers artists studio space alongside access to project spaces and opportunities to independently curate exhibitions, workshops, and events.

The programme supports a wide range of practices, from performance and installation to music, sound, print, and textiles, and is designed to provide space, visibility, and development opportunities for early-career and underrepresented artists working in London.

Poster design: Isabel Jones and Suzanne Elven