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1st March - 15th April 2023
Herald St | 2 Herald St, London, E2 6JT

A Gauzy Flame, featuring new works by Yage Guo, Esteban Jefferson, Poppy Jones, Cole Lu, and Paula Siebra. United by a muted colour palette, the pieces on view tell stories of myths and monuments, flashes of beauty in domestic settings, and memories of heat. The exhibition, titled after a lyrical and sensory fragment by Sappho, will take place in the gallery’s East London premises and marks the Herald St debut for all included artists. Hailing from London, New York, rural Sussex, and northern Brazil, they question historic tenets of painting, offering fresh plays on traditional subjects and mediums. Blurry and burning, fleeting and timeless, the works in A Gauzy Flame radiate with a hazy, emotive power.

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Yage Guo’s paintings find inspiration in legends and literature. In her recent output, she depicts scenes steeped in melancholy from medieval tales of heraldry and novels such as Albert Camus’ L’étranger. Androgynous figures emerge in incandescent silhouettes cast against jet black grounds, seemingly lost in thought. Guo’s work is characterised by an ethereality, portraying visions which are at once softly blurred and sharply focused. Set within romantic backdrops of stained-glass windows and fields of forget-me-nots, her new paintings are imbued with an oneiric and palpable atmosphere. Guo inserts her own emotions into her work, charging them with ephemeral memories.

Text written by Émilie Streiff

(Full text: http://www.heraldst.com/a-gauzy-flame)

A Gauzy Flame, Herald St, 2023, Installation View: Yage Guo and Cole Lu

A Gauzy Flame, Herald St, 2023, Installation View: Yage Guo and Cole Lu

Yage Guo works installation

Yage Guo works installation

The Eyes of Moon  2022  Oil on canvas  50.6 x 40.5 cm / 19.9 x 15.9 in

The Eyes of Moon 2022 Oil on canvas 50.6 x 40.5 cm / 19.9 x 15.9 in

Magic Mirror  2022  Oil on linen  50.6 x 45.7 cm / 19.9 x 18 in

Magic Mirror 2022 Oil on linen 50.6 x 45.7 cm / 19.9 x 18 in

The Eyes of Moon  2022  Oil on canvas  50.6 x 40.5 cm / 19.9 x 15.9 in

The Eyes of Moon 2022 Oil on canvas 50.6 x 40.5 cm / 19.9 x 15.9 in

A Gauzy Flame, Herald St, 2023, Installation View: Poppy Jones and Cole Lu

A Gauzy Flame, Herald St, 2023, Installation View: Poppy Jones and Cole Lu

A Gauzy Flame, Herald St, 2023, Installation View: Paula Siebra and Cole Lu

A Gauzy Flame, Herald St, 2023, Installation View: Paula Siebra and Cole Lu

A Gauzy Flame, Herald St, 2023, Installation View: Esteban Jefferson, Cole Lu and Yage Guo

A Gauzy Flame, Herald St, 2023, Installation View: Esteban Jefferson, Cole Lu and Yage Guo

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EYES, DUSK, PHANTASMAGORIA

9-12th April 2022, Rupture XIBIT, London

To absorb the surroundings

Carrying small moments of

Sentimentality and nostalgia

Observing plural dimensions

A group of dreamers

Allows space for wonder

The present is multilayered - reality itself is the most surreal. This surreality is not science fiction; it is a revolutionary romantic approach to our very human sentiments.

In this exhibition, the artists delve into the plural dimensions of sensory languages and aim to understand the multiplicity involved with inhabited thinking.

Artists:

Bo Sun, Erin Alles, Li Hei Di, Meryl Yana, Nooka Shepherd, Oda Sønderland, Shiwen Wang, Sofia Nifora, Tsai Yun-Ju, Wenxuan Wang, Xiaoyu1002, Yage Guo

Curator: Olivia Chan

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Selected Exhibitions: About Us

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Following The First Swing of the Bat, we have a clean hit which preferably clears the stands. A large crack permeates the night air, reverberates, echoing against collective joint inhalation. There is no time to dwell on the heat nor moisture loitering at every turn. We are unquestionably in the thick of it, the noise is deafening, time moves slower and faster simultaneously. Knocking it out of the park alludes to the constant onslaught of departures and arrivals in the studio throughout the process of creation. 

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Slade 150th Anniversary show.

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