- Venue
- Byth Gallery
- Starts
- Friday, September 1, 2023
- Ends
- Saturday, September 9, 2023
- Address
- Level 5 Sherfield Building, Imperial College, Exhibition Rd London SW7 2AZ
- Location
- London
- Organiser
- Blyth Gallery
Kundera’s novel explores the unbearable lightness that is a necessary condition of our transience and mortality; with no hope of return, our lives are ephemeral. In the novel this fleetingness of human existence is posited in the phrase ‘Einmal ist keinmal’ (once is never); the existential irrelevance to our existence being both immensely freeing and overwhelmingly weighty. The paintings and sculptures in this show respond to this proposition, intuiting imagery and form that might contain and bear the paradoxical nature of this state. The heavy made light and the light made heavy with all the inherent slippage these terms evoke is given a materiality in these works that is dream-like, sensual and effervescent.
