NAUSEA | GROUP EXHIBITION PRIVATE VIEW

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🍷 Wednesday 1st May, 6-9pm

📍 Playground 72 London, Shoreditch, 72 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY.

📅 1-30th May

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:

Borrowing its title from the 1938 Jean-Paul Sartre novel, this group show explores themes of isolation, dissociation and revulsion, investigating the veil that separates our inner condition from the outer world. Sickly colour palettes, deconstructed figures and desolate interiors feature throughout the work, realised in a textural quality that captures the grittiness of the novel.

Bringing together a selection of works by emerging artists, this exhibition aims to visualise the sporadic ‘nausea’ experienced by the protagonist, Roquentin. The phenomenon is defined in the novel by a feeling of intense sickness that occurs when the people and objects around him suddenly lose all their familiar and recognisable qualities.

Quiet domestic settings and everyday objects are re-contextualised with horror, prompting a sensory overload as dimensions collapse inward. Identity, time, and existence itself lose meaning, replaced by a hollow feeling of disenchantment and difficulty in connecting with the tangible world.

This early text on existentialism is a vehicle through which we can assess our collective experiences of isolation, disgust and disillusionment. The protagonist becomes overwhelmed by the responsibility of giving meaning to his own life, an experience familiar to us all.

FEATURING:

Celia Mora @celiamora7746

Hyunhee Doh @hyunhee.doh

Isaac Pollock @ispol_

Santiago Llanos Gutierrez @santiago.llanos.gutierrez

Joey Green @j.green_art

Jessie Whiteley @jessiewhiteleyx

Keith Muir