Collisions of Self, System, and Sensation

Bringing together the work of over 70 artists in the first year of their postgraduate journeys, Somehow You and I Collide marks a moment of emergence, urgency, and exchange. Featuring students from MA Art and Science, MA Fine Art, and MA Photography at Central Saint Martins, this sprawling group exhibition unfolds across the raw, post-industrial architecture of Mangle in East London.

Presented publicly for the first time, the works span painting, sculpture, video, performance, installation, and interactive media. Themes range from identity, celebrity, and bodily presence, to systems of reality, chaos, and excess—expressions as varied as the artists themselves, yet bound by a collective intensity.

Set against the backdrop of a shifting economic and political terrain, the exhibition pulses with questions about what it means to make art now. These are not works made in isolation—they are born from collision: of disciplines, of urgencies, of inner lives with outer pressures.

Somehow You and I Collide is a declaration. A coming together of perspectives that insist on being seen, heard, and felt.