Exhibition
All Those Nickel Wishes Cast As Spells
13 Feb 2025 – 15 Mar 2025
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Free admission
Address
- 6 Camberwell Passage
- Camberwell
- London
England - SE5 0AX
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Nearest Bus Stop: Camberwell Green (F), bus numbers 35, 40, 42, 45 and Warner Road (J and H) bus numbers 36, 185, 436, N136
- Nearest London Stations: Oval (Northern Line), Denmark Hill (London Overground and Thameslink) or Loughborough Junction (London Overground and Thameslink)
- Denmark Hill
Sim Smith is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by London based multidisciplinary artist and musician Cato.
About
This ambitious exhibition will showcase new large-scale works pairing collage with airbrush and painting, a multimedia practice that explores the foundations of art, belonging, and Black culture.With imagery inspired by photographs taken by the artist as well as found images, he plays with notions of traditional portraiture working from the street and the intimate lives of strangers.
“I make creole paintings mixing influences of western and African diasporic styles. I’ve been looking at mid-century design, 70s cinema like John Cassavetes, Classical composition like Caravaggio and Piero Della Francesca and American photographers like Carl van Vechten who documented the stars of the Harlem renaissance. I want to make this imaginary world for the characters I find to live in and express their real emotions. I’m in dialogue with Romare Bearden, who himself was using the language of Picasso and Matisse and recontextualising their use of African magical forms with images of black America. I think of this kind of collage as a black dadaism, predicting the textures of hip hop. I use this language and cast people from photos I find and take to create scenes like Stills from a drama."
– Cato, December 2024
