Isabella Benshimol Toro uses resin and everyday bathroom appliances, as the basis of her art works. In this exhibition, Rinse & Hold, her endeavours into the vast world of doors and windows, is now brought to life. Isabella works through time in solidifying and exposing the intimacy of domestic habits, with precise and simple gestures […]
"My painting is an investigation of memories in my body, in which I question the temptations and intentions in a portrait of the intimate - a memory of records of looks, people and constructions, of small shapes, environmental themes, habits, the rescue of the knowledge of native peoples - all these things that fill in […]
Nan Goldin’s exhibition, Sisters, Saints, Sibyls, is a series of off-site projects that allows audiences to experience remarkable artworks in unusual contexts. The exhibition is on view at the former Welsh Chapel. Goldin begins her film Sisters, Saints, Sibyls (2004–22) with the myth of Saint Barbara, presenting the story of the early Christian martyr as a three-channel […]
The presentation of In Dreams builds upon and reflect Laura Lancaster’s idiosyncratic exploration of collective memory, loss and longing. Embodying a poignant sense of transience and reflection, her paintings navigate an ambiguous territory between abstraction and figuration, shifting between the sentimental and melancholic, the uncanny and strange.
Working on an intimate scale on panel, Sara Schlesinger’s landscapes preconceive the genre’s traditions and playfully engage with the question – what can you see? Including seascapes and garden-scapes rendered with a reduced colour palette and ambiguous lighting, the artist creates works positioned between binaries of revelation and negation, immediacy and futurity, and symmetry and […]
In Billboards and Talismans, Bethany Hadfield considers the way motorway billboards are viewed in motion, how they act as speakers of desire, and the extent to which the visual qualities of their text – shape, colour, line – can take precedence over linguistic meaning in these transitory, fleeting glances.
Dangerous Waters, is the title of Yuan Fang’s exhibition and the artist’s debut in London. The exhibition features a series of new paintings marked by their monumental scale, cascading cyclical […]
L’improduttiva, is a new body of thirteen paintings and works on paper by Giulia Andreani. These works encapsulate Andreani’s compelling yet haunting painterly practice. Across her oeuvre, Andreani repurposes personal memorabilia and archival photographs, addressing forgotten histories through a subversive and feminist lens. Working primarily in her signature palette of Payne’s grey – a blue-grey […]
Hettie Inniss’s work responds to multi-sensory influences and bodily experiences, capturing and preserving a moment in time inflected by scent, light, sound and memory. Across the works on view in the exhibition is a desire for recollection, of exploring the past in order to make sense of the present. For Inniss, painting can be a […]
The exhibition, Whole Cookie, unveils a new series of figurative paintings by Ana Karkar, and an installation piece comprised of video, sculpture and literature. Composed as a temple to eroticism, it explores and universalises the many complex paradoxes of Ishtar, the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of both love and war, as well as fertility and sensuality. […]
“The Story Behind Each Word Must Be Told” focuses on one of the central threads of Nil Yalter’s practice coming from the nomadic lives and their resistance in Aşık tradition in Anatolia for centuries: the word and the utterance, its sound and its music. From Topak Ev (1973) to D’Après Stimmung (1973), Shaman (1979), Exile […]
The works Miya Jazmin Browne (aka BLCKGEEZER) has produced begin by invoking powerful themes surrounding maternal instincts to feed and nurture, fertility as well as explorations of mother-child iconography. These paintings in Black Nausea/24, go further to explore ‘Black’ not merely as a form of resistance, but as a material expression of existential persistence and do […]
The exhibition, Mythic from, the Pacific/Pissing in the Inferno, presents new works by Plum Cloutman and Naomi Workman.
La petite mort, Jacqueline de Jong’s exhibition, brings together new paintings made over the last two years with a group of rarely seen works executed sixty years ago. In her recent oeuvre de Jong comes full circle, exploring afresh the artistic lexicon of the earliest years of her career, when she first honed the vivid […]
To be Dispersed, not to Disappear, begins the philosophical conundrum in which Yi To prefigures the materiality of fragmented body, and its reappearance in the virtual as sign. Her paintings, with their shadowy forms rendered in thin washes, beget a fragility. They take on the propositional aspects of loss, an eclipse’s negative memory; as with the […]
The installation, Passages Through the Caustics, converses with the natural movement of the light that occupies the space. Activating the energies of the work’s surface, our encounters of its luminosity are guided by a sequence of movements we feel compelled to follow; becoming an accomplice in Elli Antoniou’s endeavours to activate the materials fluidity. The sculptural […]
The exhibition includes a new body of ceramic works from So’s 'Woman' stoneware series that draw upon early fertility idols and Venus figures celebrating the female form, alongside new Snuff bottle sculptures including a lemon, a nose, a poppy and a Pekingese dog. Inspired by using ceramics and glass in architecture and public spaces, she […]
“The entire world has been turned into a well-fitted mask for the human face,” reflects theorist Carl Olsson in his essay “Peak Face” (2023). “The world is a Facehugger.” From the Cambrian Explosion to deepfakes, Olson analyses the history and seeming end of the face as the ultimate interface, given the ease with which this […]
Beyond Fashion showcases the work of acclaimed fashion photographers from around the world. The works demonstrate how fashion photography has moved past the simple presentation of product lines to reflect on the reality of our lives, to explore our aspirations and to push at the boundaries of creativity. Including works by Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Viviane […]
Magda Stawarska presents one of her most ambitious presentations to date, showcasing ten new works across various media. Split across the gallery’s upper and lower floors, taking the form of […]