The Shock of the Now - Issue #163
Afternoon All - Welcome to Issue 163 of The Shock of the Now! I hope you’re having an enjoyable week.
This week, the full issue includes seventeen Recommended Exhibitions, as well as fourteen fresh Artist Opportunities.
I hope you enjoy Issue 163, and if so do forward it along! As always, questions and comments are welcome, so feel free to get in touch, H x
Recommended Exhibitions Opening This Week :
Eleni Papazoglou - ‘Half a second or less’ Solo Exhibition - Soup, Elephant & Castle (6th March - 12th April, opening Wednesday 5th March, 6-9pm)
Soup presents Eleni Papazoglou’s solo exhibition ‘Half a second or less’.
“With a diverse practice incorporating assemblage, installation, design, performance, writing and pedagogy, Papazoglou observes and celebrates the shared societal systems that we use to relate to one another. In particular, she exposes the often overlooked waste produced by language, labour and commerce; the discarded detritus of subsisting within late-stage capitalism. Examining and employing the aesthetics and vernacular of advertising (product packaging/photography, commercial displays, cataloguing) she questions pre-existing value structures, developing coping mechanisms against consumerist systems that seek to exclude, minoritize or other.” - Soup
Nina Ogden - ‘Sleight Of The Canopy’ Solo Exhibition - Incubator, Marylebone (6th-30th March, opening Wednesday 5th March, 5:30-7:30pm)
Incubator presents Nina Ogden’s solo exhibition ‘Sleight Of The Canopy’.
Tom Hardwick-Allan - ‘Low Relief and Foil’ Solo Exhibition - South Parade, Farringdon (6th March - 19th April, opening Wednesday 5th March, 6-8pm)
South Parade presents Tom Hardwick-Allan’s solo exhibition ‘Low Relief and Foil’.
“Hardwick-Allan scratches away at an array of surfaces, treating image making as a digestive process, by which continual revision is a means of staying in dialogue with the work; tracing a range of links between falconry, printmaking, digestion and augury.” - South Parade
Alvaro Barrington - ‘Back Home / I Am... I Said’ Solo Exhibition - Sadie Coles HQ, Soho (6th March - 26th April, opening Wednesday 5th March, 6-8pm)
Sadie Coles presents Alvaro Barrington’s solo exhibition ‘Back Home / I Am... I Said’, featuring Tiffany Calver, Naima Nefertari and Friendly Pressure.
“Following his recent exhibition at Tate Britain, Grace, Alvaro Barrington presents an exhibition in two chapters of new bodies of work at Sadie Coles HQ. This show marks the artist’s return to the exploration of traditional modernist painting – his primary medium of work. Back Home is composed of a series of paintings and works on paper, in which the artist depicts his impression of sunsets setting over the Caribbean Sea.” - Sadie Coles
Divine Southgate-Smith - ‘Navigator’ Solo Exhibition - NıCOLETTı, Shoreditch (6th March - 12th April, opening Thursday 6th March, 6-8pm)
NıCOLETTı presents Divine Southgate-Smith’s solo exhibition ‘Navigator’.
“Central to Southgate-Smith’s approach is a meticulous focus on selecting, ordering, and assembling archival material. Comprising collages printed on diverse materials such as glass, gesso boards and tatami mats, Navigator invites us to consider archives as temporal instruments enabling the envisioning of a future deeply connected to the past. Throughout the exhibition, the artist evokes an Afro-diasporic counter-memory that blends personal, literary, folkloric, and historical narratives, conjuring layered, speculative spaces that (re)map histories beyond prescribed contexts.” - NıCOLETTı