The Shock of the Now - Issue #165
Afternoon All - Welcome to Issue 165 of The Shock of the Now! I hope you’re having an enjoyable week.
This week, the full issue includes fifteen Recommended Exhibitions, as well as twelve fresh Artist Opportunities.
I hope you enjoy Issue 165, 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 :
Juliette Lena Hager - ‘Rhythmanalysis’ Solo Exhibition - Pusher, Holborn (20th March - 26th April, opening Wednesday 19th March, 6-9pm)
Pusher presents Juliette Lena Hager’s solo exhibition ‘Rhythmanalysis’.
“Juliette Lena Hager’s upcoming exhibition continues her exploration of time, repetition, and urban rhythm, engaging directly with the gallery space to create a sense of enclosure and focused attention. The installation reflects on timelessness and our relationship to space, particularly in environments, where the 24/7 cycle blurs day and night into an endless rhythm; Where movement and experience unfold in continuous loops. Through a multi-disciplinary installation, Hager examines the fluidity of time and our relationship to space.” - Pusher
Rebeca Romero - ‘After the Sun’ Solo Exhibition - Copperfield, Southwark (20th March - 17th May, opening Wednesday 19th March, 6-8:30pm)
Copperfield presents Rebeca Romero’s solo exhibition ‘After the Sun’, accompanied by a text from Gisselle Girón Casas, curator at the ESCALA Collection.
“After the Sun presents Rebeca Romero’s ongoing exploration of speculative artefacts that merge Indigenous American technologies with contemporary fabrication techniques. By removing and disavowing artefacts from the confines of history and museums and rekindling them in fiction, Rebeca constructs an alternative future where a fictional revolutionary civilisation thrives. To construct the myth of After the Sun, Rebeca draws on the story of Andean women who resisted colonial evangelisation. They escaped to the highlands, forging their ideology and developing methods to protect their culture, philosophy, and origin stories.” - Copperfield
Joan Nelson - Solo Exhibition - Herald St, Bethnal Green (20th March - 26th April, opening Wednesday 19th March, 6-8pm)
Herald St presents Joan Nelson’s latest solo exhibition.
“For over four decades, Joan Nelson (born 1958, El Segundo, California) has created majestic and potent visions of the natural world, playfully subverting the long-standing art historical genre of landscape painting. Herald St presents an exhibition of new works made by the artist in her studio nestled amongst the Catskill Mountains in Stamford, New York.” - Herald St
“My work is just a continuous daily exploration of how to make a landscape with methods and materials that help me render a lifeless future world. It’s a world that we can mourn in advance, speculate about its nature and the future of its beauty. A reminder to enjoy every precious moment of the now.” - Joan Nelson
‘Being without being is blue’ Group Exhibition + Lorena Lohr - ‘Motel Nudes’ Solo Exhibition - Soho Revue, Soho (19th March - 19th April, opening Wednesday 19th March, 6-8pm)
Soho Revue presents ‘Being without being is blue’, a group exhibition featuring Imogen Allen, Johanna Bath, Emma Beatrez, Harry Hugo Little, Julien Parant-Marquis and Kasia Wozniak. Alongside, they present Lorena Lohr’s solo exhibition ‘Motel Nudes’.
“Inspired by William Gass’s philosophical text, ‘On Being Blue’, this exhibition, ‘Being Without Being is Blue’, explores the link between melancholia and intimacy. Following the listomania that features in Gass’ work in an attempt to describe something that is unseen, the artists cover the bridge of making tangible the feeling of melancholic intimacy in their work. The artists capture this intangible feeling and the marked poverty of language in its inability to describe this in-between emotional state, through both symbols and a blurred ethereal quality to their works which lead us to believe that images that may serve us better as description that words; the only way to say is to see.” - Soho Revue
“This series, Motel Nudes, opens up the world laid out in the previous instalment of the Desert Nudes series, and features solely miniature porthole-esque works, echoing the ‘love tokens’ of the Victorian era and the High Renaissance. In an antidote to the archetypal images of Western machismo which often feature in the cowboy canon, instead Lorena offers depictions of cool, calm, nude women who languor, always alone, across beds, plastic chairs or the gently burnt carpets of desert motels.” - Soho Revue
Eisa Jocson - ‘Princess Parade’ Solo Exhibition - Under The Spell, Stockwell (21st March - 27th April, opening Thursday 20th March, 8am-4pm)
Under The Spell presents Eisa Jocson’s solo exhibition ‘Princess Parade’.
“Eisa Jocson, an interdisciplinary artist from the Philippines, draws on her background as a dancer and choreographer to examine movement as both a cultural and political language. Her work explores codified forms of performance—from classical ballet to Disney princess gestures—as well as the repetitive motions of daily labour, such as sweeping or cooking. Princess Parade (2018) stages a public intervention in Manila sretching this investigation further. Seven performers, dressed as Snow White, parade from the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) to the U.S. Embassy, concluding their journey with dinner at a Chinese restaurant.” - Under The Spell