Where better to exhibit art inspired by mortality, rituals and relics than in an old chapel?Think Dia de los Muertos in south east London.

29th July-14th August

Berlin-based artist Oliver Pietsch’s recent film From Here to Eternity explores the theme by presenting a history of death in the history of cinema.

Flemish artist Elza Jo series,Something Sacred in theWoods,places her as shaman in this series of hand crafted photographs. Jo allows the viewer to take a peek into her personal surroundings; her friends, her cat Rico and herself are most definitely favorite subjects. In the ever-evolving digital era, Elza Jo prefers genu- ine handcraft. She adds extra layers to her photos and videos by gluing, stapling, sewing and embroidering. Alison Honey’s work seeks to explore the perennial relationship between worship, wildness and enchantment. Totem I and Totem II conjure the hybrid nature of hunting – an act of domination, but also at times of deep spiritual significance.

Minnie Weisz is creating a series of camera obscuras reinventing past his- tories of the Chapel reflected in the medium of camera obscura and pho- tographic installations using found ephemera and stories she tracks down along her journey into the mysteries of the Peckham area playing with time and notions of place.

Sophia Schorr-Kon’s new photographic works asks you to immerse yourself within the piercing gaze of a lithe and unrecognisable creature. Represent- ing the brink of life, it creates space for the treasures that can be retrieved from meditations in dark and inhospitable places that exist in our emotional landscape.

Samantha Sweeting’s video works The House Falls Down and Vessel mark the relationship between the body and the space it inhabits. She uses the camera to contain a collection of vocal releases and gestures, embracing and letting go of the histories housed in the walls and inscribed on her body.

Chilean-Canadian artist Grace Morgan Pardo’s practice primarily takes the form of portrait and still life painting, as well as performance art. Grace is strongly influenced by folklore and South American spiritual practices, as much as by personal and family history. Her paintings, performances and installations, have at the core, the concepts of the sacred origins of art and the significance of votive objects.Through an installation of ephemera, video documentation and a series of performances, Grace will experiment with a series of binding spells constituting in a performance on the preview evening.

Private View 29th July 6-9pm

RSVP ESSENTIAL FOR PREVIEW AND AFTER-PARTY email jarehdas@gmail.com

Drinks for preview supplied by Pernod Absinthe

Exhibition continues 29 July - 14 August 2011 12pm - 6pm Thursday to Sunday or by appointment