Enemies and Rascals by Terence Gower

Commissioned and produced by Artangel

Friday 3 July 2026 - Sunday 18 October 2026.
For visitor information, including detailed opening hours and how to make a booking, please see Artangel: Enemies and Rascals

Opening hours
Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays: 12.00-1900
Saturdays and Sundays: 11.00-17.00
The exhibition will be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays. For additional closure dates please see the Maughan Library exhibitions page. 
Free entry. Advance booking is recommended.

Enemies and Rascals is a new polyphonic sound installation by Terence Gower that returns to a largely forgotten episode of North American history: the Invasion of Quebec during the American War of Independence.

Over the past three years, Gower has traced the scattered remains of this moment in public and university archives across Britain and North America, including The National Archives at Kew, King’s College London's Foyle Special Collections Library, and the New York Public Library. Drawing on extensive research, the artist interlaces multiple perspectives from the military campaign, while considering the limitations of the archive itself.

The work is presented at the Original Cell in the Maughan Library, where the nation’s public records were formerly housed, including those relating to the governance of Britain’s colonies.

As visitors navigate between the metal and slate shelves of the Cell, they will hear accounts from congressional leaders and soldiers on the front line, proclamations by King George III, and transcripts of speeches by Indigenous leaders, asserting their own continuing sovereignty over the lands being contested by imperial and revolutionary forces.

Enemies and Rascals is accompanied by The Quebec Act, an exhibition in the Weston Room of related rare books and historical documents from our special collections, which explores the historical background to the 1775 invasion of Quebec. The Quebec Act has been curated by Gower with Katie Sambrook and John Wilby of the Foyle Special Collections Library.

About Artangel

Artangel produces and presents extraordinary art in unexpected places across London, the UK, and beyond. For over thirty years, Artangel has generated some of the most widely discussed art of recent times, including prominent large-scale projects with artists who have become household names in the UK, including Jeremy Deller, Roger Hiorns, Michael Landy, Steve McQueen and Rachel Whiteread.

Recent Artangel projects include The Story of Fixity by Noémie Goudal, Naeem Mohaiemen’s THROUGH A MIRROR, DARKLY, Hetain Patel’s Come As You Really Are, Sarah Sze's The Waiting Room, Marcus Coates’ The Directors, Afterness on Orford Ness, Suffolk, Evan Roth’s Red Lines, Jonathan Glazer’s short film STRASBOURG 1518, made for the BBC, Elizabeth Price’s SLOW DANS, Oscar Murillo’s Frequencies and Steve McQueen’s Year 3, in collaboration with Tate Britain and A New Direction.

For more information on Artangel, please visit artangel.org.uk  @artangel_london