Nolias Gallery 60 Great Suffolk Street SE1 OBL 1st August - 3rd August 2023
Private View - 1st August, 5-8PM
‘Grin and Bear it’ is an exploration and celebration of our resilience through the grit of day to day life. This exhibition aims to re-frame escapism as perseverance, a collective defiance for the vibrancy of raucous nights and intimate moments of peace. Throughout the exhibition, the stark symbolism of teeth evokes a playful yet disturbing effect. Sets of teeth grin and grimace and sounds of chattering and grinding fill the space. A whole choir of faceless mouths surround you, crying out in discordant harmony and singing words that you can’t quite make out but somehow understand. There is a buzzing atmosphere of cloying discomfort and joyous absurdity, inducing the impulse to both shiver and laugh. A confusing yet arresting experience that perhaps reflects how it feels to ‘grin and bear it’.
ARTISTS Alfie Golding, Anders Waller, Anna Evans, Eva Titherington, Georgie Earnshaw, Hannah Dempsey, Jade Anthony, Jude, Dulake, Katerina Matheson, Maximilian Kilworth, 8MAIL
Poetry by Hannah O’Sullivan
Curated by Katerina Matheson
Produced by Anders Waller
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