April 25-26 , 2026
Camden Art Centre, London
Working across film, sound, installation and performance, Carpenter’s interdisciplinary practice explores memory, erasure and the unstable conditions through which histories are constructed and transmitted. Sojourn unfolds these concerns through layered temporal and material registers.
The evening will open with a conversation between Carpenter and Cynthia Igbokwe, followed by a screening and reinterpretation of the score featuring a chain guitar performance by Richie Culver, and concluding with a live performance from Carpenter.
Following this debut, the film will be screened on loop at Camden Art Centre on Sunday 26 April from 11am-6pm in the Artists’ Studio (Floor 1).
Organised by Cynthia Igbokwe, C-STUDIOS. Made possible with support from [GESAMTKUNSTWERK] COLLECTION. Supporting Sponsor ZORA
Sojourn marks Allen-Golder Carpenter’s UK debut at Camden Art Centre. First presented within his largest solo exhibition to date at Tick Tack, Antwerp, the film will be shown alongside two new paintings and a debut live performance.
“Heavily inspired by the film Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance, Sojourn weaves these elements into a layered meditation on memory, transformation, and the instability of historical perspective.
In the film, Carpenter constructs a fractured cinematic language to explore the fragility of memory and the violence of erasure. Through a poetic interplay of image, text, sound, and spoken word, the film reflects on the cyclical nature of life and death—not as abstraction, but as lived experience shaped by systemic neglect and historical distortion. Following the titular character on their journey from the afterlife to the living world and back again, encountering several spirits while on a quest to find fragments of their lost name. Sojourn presents a layered, unresolved attempt to hold onto what history often pushes aside—especially the lives, voices, and losses of Black communities whose stories are too often overwritten.”