Athen Kardashian & Nina Mhach Durban

[ both b. 2000 ]

are a British-Asian artist duo based in London. Their collaborative practice is founded upon an open and ongoing dialogue examining their shared experience of being raised in London by Indian mothers. Stories, food, clothes and objects passed from person to person, across houses, hands and borders, find a home in their work. The feminine diaspora and its link to world building is something the duo dissect, creating environments that reference the domestic and acknowledge, yet alter, the gallery space and its atmosphere. A recurring question raised by their practice remains; what is sacred?  Religious deities and pop icons of the modern world exist side by side, and the home-made and the glamorous encounter. Piracy, age, ownership, love and circumstance all take effect on the work’s materials resulting in an articulation of personal and marginalised histories.

Recent solo exhibitions include 04.) I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman, The Shop at Sadie Coles HQ (London, 2024), I’ll Wear the Bangles From Your Hands, Soup Gallery (London 2024), Sleepover, Gathering (Glasshouse Projects) (London, 2023). As well as group exhibitions Duos: The Art of Collaboration, Charleston Trust (Lewes, UK, 2024),Christie’s Lates: Voices of Black Artistry, Christie’s (London, 2024), the sanctuaries we call I, No Man’s Art Gallery, (Amsterdam, 2024) Come Closer, Indigo+Madder (London, 2023), Beauty Art Tech Spa, Cornershop, (London, 2023), First Edition, Collective Ending HQ w. Baesianz, (London, 2023), The Ultimate Bootleg Experience, Studio Chapple, (London, 2023)