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Arcade is not active on Instagram. A hacked legacy account using our name and logo remains online but is no longer affiliated with us. Follow us at Substack Arcade 64 Hatcham Road London SE15 1TW Arcade Flat Time House 210 Bellenden Road London SE15 4BW (2021-2024) Arcade rue de marché aux Porcs, 10 Brussels 1000 (2019-2023) Arcade 87 Lever Street London EC1V 3RA (2007-2021) Anna Barham Breath Mark 2015 UV print on rainbow holographic card, mounted on aluminium 96.5 x 69 cm Arcade’s new identity takes the form of a comma, or breath mark — a motif developed by artist Anna Barham. It symbolises pause, reflection, and the collective breath of an audience. Emerging from the lockdowns of 2020–21, it also represents a turning point for Arcade: a moment to ask what art is for, what it can change, and how it can help us care for one another. The name ARCADE is a ready-made (referencing neither Pac-Man nor Walter Benjamin) found on a street in Amsterdam in 2006 on the way to a studio visit with Jeremiah Day —the first artist approached to make an exhibition at a gallery that hadn’t yet opened. Arcade is an artist-driven commercial gallery developing a working model for how cultural and creative spaces can operate as civic infrastructure.…
