In tandem with the exhibition, Holding Company features a public programme of three scheduled meetings, collectively titled ‘Out of Office (OOO)‘. The documentation and outcomes from each meeting will be left behind in the gallery, becoming part of the exhibition. 

Tickets for these events will be available to book on Outsavvy soon. Links will be released in the coming weeks.

OOO: Tawfik Naas | TOIL
Wednesday 5 August, 7-8pm

Researcher Tawfik Naas joins curator Aram Masharqa for the first of the OOO meetings. Part ‘meeting with HR’ and part ‘casual chat’, Tawfik and Aram will hold a conversation in public, working together to imagine what a TOIL (Time Off in Lieu) policy would look like for a holding company. The resulting collaboratively written document will be added to the exhibition. Audiences are welcome to participate however they like, from simply observing to actively contributing to the document.

OOO: José García Oliva | OCCURRENCE REPORT
Friday 14 August, 7-8pm

Artist José García Oliva joins curator Aram Masharqa for the second OOO meeting. Their discussion will centre on the ‘Occurrence Report’ – a document required daily from shift workers (such as receptionists, security guards, and night cleaners) that details the events of a shift for management’s review. The conversation will move from a discussion of these labour practices into a broader look at José’s wider artistic practice.

OOO: Samra Mayanja | THE CALL CENTRE #15 – Eleanor Tennyson: “National Treasures”
Thursday 20 August, 7-9pm

Artist Samra Mayanja brings her performance programme THE CALL CENTRE to SET 91 for the third OOO meeting. Dedicated to the voice and the unspeakable, the monthly series invites artists and writers to share new work in intimate spaces across London, from artist studios to galleries after hours or, as Samra puts it, “a cute little cubby of an art space”. For this session, London-based writer and poet Eleanor Tennyson presents National Treasures, sharing work concerned with love, its destinations, and the unconscious speaking lyric. Tennyson is the co-editor of ALICE journal, author of The Hairy Manifesto, works at Brixton Prison, and adores Josef Pilates.

Additional viewing appointments are available on the weekend. For more information and to book an appointment, please contact: aram@masharqa.com

H M Baker

H M Baker’s practice is concerned with systems of power, labour, performativity, and gender. Working collaboratively across performance, film, and print, she creates long-term research projects that scratch at the veneer of the world of work. She is currently based in London.

Recent exhibitions and live works include Galerie Hussenot, Paris (2026); ZÉRUÌ, London (2026); Galerija Škuc, Ljubljana (2025); Art-O-Rama, Marseille (2025); MAXINE at Rathbone Institute, London (2025); NEVEN, London (2025); Ginny on Frederick, London (2024); Circa Prize, London (2024); Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (2024); SITE Gallery, Sheffield (2022); and Roberts Institute of Art, London (2022).

José García Oliva

José García Oliva is a Venezuelan artist living and working in London. His practice focuses on outsourcing systems, migrant labour, and the hierarchies that sculpt everyday urban life, interrogating how these structures are experienced, negotiated, and reproduced within shared social spaces. He works through long-term collaborations that prioritise co-authorship and ongoing relationships, shaping how the work is made, shown, and circulated. His projects often unfold through enacted social exchanges or site-responsive provocations, taking the form of performances, drawings, sculptures, and public interventions.

Recent exhibitions and commissions include As Long as it Yields (Timespan), Welcome isn’t a Doormat (Metal Culture), Tonada de Galopeo (Abra, Venezuela), I’m listening to what you’re not saying and it’s very loud (V&A), Out of Hours (Lancaster Arts), and How May I Serve You? (Axisweb, ACE and SET Studios), alongside residencies at Gasworks, Casa Wabi, Hospitalfield, and SOMA. Oliva is currently a lecturer at Central Saint Martins.

Luke Gould

Luke Gould is a London-based graphic designer and art director working across print, environmental and digital platforms. His work focuses on design and communication for arts, culture and media organisations, as well as close collaborations with artists, architects and designers. Since completing an MA at the Royal College of Art in 2011, Luke has operated via his own collaborative studio practice and also design partnership LG—HM, working with clients including Wellcome Collection, the Royal Academy, Kettle’s Yard, Fitzwilliam Museum, the British Council and Venice Biennale. 

Markéta Slaná

Markéta Slaná is a Prague-based artist working with sculpture, performance, text, and video. Slaná’s practice considers how the aesthetics and visual culture of bureaucracy, neoliberalism, and techno-capitalism affect productions of selfhood, particularly through the lenses of girlhood and the metabolisation of internet culture within physical reality. In tone, the work has a dark, existential humour, where absurdity and post-irony reflect the affects of dissociation and alienation that typify living in the contemporary political moment.

Her work has been presented in exhibitions at the Museumsquartier in Vienna, the National Gallery Prague, Sadler’s Wells, and the hunt kastner gallery in Prague. She has also participated in artist residency programs at the Delfina Foundation in London, the Rupert Residency in Vilnius, and the Brno House of Arts.

Maya King-Dabbs

Maya King-Dabbs is a London-based sculptor working with readymade and multimedia fabrication processes. Drawing on subjects and materials from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, King-Dabbs isolates objects, images, and moments that feel distinctly emblematic of their time. Her practice examines how contemporary culture constructs narratives of aspiration, desire, and belonging through her own process of recontextualisation and material transformation. She graduated from Goldsmiths, University of London with a BA in Fine Art and History of Art in 2025, and is currently undertaking the Alumni Junior Fellowship (2025-2027).

Recent presentations include exhibitions at Bolding Gallery, London Art Services, and a solo presentation at Window 135, New Cross. She is a returning contributor for The Toe Rag and works across several collaborative partnerships with writers and performers. King-Dabbs is also available for hire as a fabricator.

Samra Mayanja

Samra Mayanja is an artist, writer, and curator working across performance, installation, film and writing. Her practice considers the illegibility of the body and the absurdist impulse to seek what is irretrievably lost. A continuously hopeful but seemingly futile act of searching runs through her work and manifests in performances that blend improvisation, slapstick, poetic monologues and tender vocalisations.

Samra Mayanja lives and works in London. Recent projects include Dead Dad Death Cult, Transmediale, Berlin (2025); Touch Me, Serf, Leeds (2024); All Islands Connect Underwater, CCA Glasgow (2023); The Living and the Stale, The Tetley, Leeds (2023); Bone Deep Deliverance (SCREAM II), LIVE Biennale, Western Front, Vancouver; scripted for a wayward narrator, London Short Film Festival (2022); and SWEAT, Somerset House, London (2021). Her pamphlet My Will and Testament (Never My Last) was recently published with If a Leaf Falls Press (2025). Mayanja is the founder of Black Cinema Project and THE CALL CENTRE.

Tawfik Naas

Tawfik Naas is a researcher based in London, whose work explores how historic trauma is carried, remembered, and transformed. His research borrows from ecological and cosmological systems to imagine alternative ways of witnessing the past — understanding it as something continually returning through us.

Recent solo exhibitions include Manifestations for an Eternal Spring, Flatlands Projects, Bexhill (2026)l; (A Study) In Muddled Light, Kip, London (2026); Instead, It Bore A Tulip, Bolding, London (2025); and Chaos Is A Flower, San Mei, London (2024). 

Aram Masharqa

Aram Masharqa (b.2001, Ramallah) is a writer, researcher, and curator based in London, whose work sits at the intersection of postcolonial theory and institutional critique. Drawing on a background in literary theory, his practice is oriented around a central question: how artists negotiate resistance and agency from within the institutional, historical, and colonial structures that condition them. Recent research interests have included artists acting as service providers via the APG and Andrea Fraser, the uses of history in Palestinian sculpture, and current decolonial approaches to curating. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA in English and the Sotheby’s Institute of Art for an MA in Contemporary Art.

Holding Company marks the second exhibition in SET 91’s second six-month programme of curated shows. This programme is led by the SET curatorial team and invited guest curators, and encompasses exhibitions, performance and cross-disciplinary projects.

More details on future exhibitions will be announced soon.   

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SET 91 is SET’s first in-house curated contemporary arts gallery, located in Old Street. Dedicated to supporting early-career contemporary artists, the gallery provides a non-profit platform for experimentation, collaboration, and the presentation of new work beyond commercial pressures.