About the project

One Song is an audio-visual installation from artist Kadir Karababa about how songs are carried across borders and continents and yet remain firmly rooted in the places they were first sung.

Audiences come face to face with women as they sing acapella, sometimes alone, sometimes overlapping in a chorus of voices.

The work is created with women who have the common experience of having been born outside of and moved to the UK. In a series of workshops, contributors are invited to share their migration stories with each other and contemplate the themes of memory, power of song and home.

Sung in their original languages, all have English subtitles allowing the viewer to experience their tales of the land, love, and loss.

One Song was originally commissioned by Counterpoints Arts, funded by Hackney Council’s Shoreditch and Hoxton Art Fund and exhibited at the Museum of the Home in London between October 2022 and February 2023.

The second iteration of the work was shown at Nucleus Arts, Chatham and was commissioned by Arts Council England.

Arts Council England continue to support the third and forth iteration of the work.

Visit the installation at The Art House, Wakefield, from Saturday 20th June 2026 to Monday 31st August 2026 and Fabrica, Brighton, from Thursday 8th October 2026 to Monday 28th October 2026.

@onesongproject

Credits

London

Singers: Alessandra Liguori, Alicia Rodriguez, Anisha Pucadyil, Audrey Harrison, Çiğdem Doğus, Fatimah Soraya Nobeebaccus, Francesca Camozzi, Hacer Karababa, Handan Karakuş, Jasmina Dimitrijevic, Liya Takie, Majlinda Xhaferraj, Primla Bhambri, Saeeda Banu, Yuko Tsukahara Gaydu.

Co-facilitator and Vocal Coach:

Ellen Muriel

Producer:

Tom Green

Website:

Maria Ilona Moore

Filming and Editing:

Tyler Freeman-Smith

Graphic Design:

Studio DC

Set Construction:

Marguerite Lepperd and Elisabetta Antonucci

Curator for Museum of the Home:

Louis Platman

Special thanks: Hackney Council, Refugee Women’s Association, Xenia, Age UK, and all the staff of Counterpoints Arts and Museum of the Home.

Medway

Singers: Adesewa Ajayi, Alberta Chaza-Hobbs, Cleta Cargill, Cynthia O’Connor, Irina Fridman, Kudakwashe Osoba, Lina Anderson, Pamela Rimmel, Randa Saab, Rita Vieraitiene, Tonnie Keith, Vicky Onitiri.

Co-facilitator and Vocal Coach:

Dani Osoba

Producer:

Vanessa Stone

Website:

Lighting and Camera:

Graphic Design:

Photography:

Set Construction:

Gallery Manager:

Genevieve Tullberg

Special thanks:

Medway African and Caribbean Association,Medway Interfaith Action,Medway Adult Education,Medway Libraries,Ideas Test,Medway Council Culture Team,The Historic Dockyard Chatham,HL Darkroom,Taze Meze Mangal and all the staff of Counterpoints and Nucleus Arts.

About Kadir Karababa

Karababa is a British-Turkish artist whose practice explores identity, memory and belonging through both personal and collective experience. Working across painting, sculpture, installation and socially engaged practice, his work draws on his own lived experience as a working-class, queer artist navigating multiple identities.

@kadkarababa kadirkarababa.com

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