Fiona Banner AKA The Vanity Press
June 24 - September 12, 2025 | Roberts Institute of Art, London
Developed in collaboration with Focal Point Gallery, In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation brings together over 25 works, some of which have never been shown in a public gallery before, from the David and Indrė Roberts Collection.
In Other Worlds: Acts of Translation considers translation as an act of movement and transformation. At a time when anything can seem open to interpretation, yet nothing appears to hold the exhibition asks: how do we engage with multiple perspectives without collapsing into relativism? How can we communicate across distances while still recognising differences? How do we engage with others — people, histories, ideas — without assuming full knowledge or easy equivalence?
The works in this exhibition show that to translate is not only to carry something across (the root meaning of the word), but also to expose its limits, its gaps and its generative possibilities. Translation is always partial, always unfinished, and in never being complete, it offers an ongoing commitment to the world and to others.