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A collage of four paintings.
Exhibition
Externalize
15 Aug 2024 – 22 Aug 2024
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 18:00 – 21:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Free admission
Address
- Vivid Studios, Florentia Clothing Village, Vale Rd, Harringay Warehouse District
- London
England - N4 1TD
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Closest tube: Manor House or Seven Sisters
- Closest Train: Harringey Green Lanes Overground
This show is an expression of the stifling of human emotion and concerns, manifest through five paintings showing the apprehensions we as individuals fail to present. It will explore the nuance of femininity and malevolent individualism.
About
Externalize is a show glorifying and exploring what it means to make oneself external. Externalizing occurs when we bring the interior to the outer world. Most people operate externally on a daily basis through human interaction, online digital media prowling, and simple creative acts within the home and workplace. With our lives being segmented and individualized innumerably everyday, the pressure to overcome problems in our atomized lives is ever greater. Everything becomes internalized, presented to be sifted, mourned, considered, reconsidered, internalized and kept to oneself. This show churns through the disquietude and apprehension of the artist, and brings to the surface underlying connections and cultivations that make us human.
In its pursuit of uncovering the very things we stifle and ignore in ourselves, the works bring outwards the melancholic malaise propagated from being kept at bay for so long. From this a feminine self-conscious arises, struggling with it’s imposed limitations and understandings. Trying to cleanse oneself from the society and roles inhabited, a languid turbulence emerges from the intention of a more objective, and universal perspective.
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Nicolka Gorel is a London-based Canadian-Slovak visual artist, working primarily with oil painting in their practice. She achieved her BA of Studio Arts Studies in Montreal, Quebec, where she presented in the graduate group show ‘It Is What Is Was’ at Popop Gallery (2022). She previously presented at Le Salon Gallery (2019) as well at What The Pop Art Fair, Montreal (2022).
Her practice encompasses a sense of unease and isolation growing from the ongoing crises and inactions of modern life. Their works approach concepts of humanity and joint universalism by providing diary-like artworks that present their concerns in isolated reveries forming an arching narrative or philosophical consideration. Her methods rely heavily on photography and capturing fleeting moments of beauty or inspiration which are then wrought in oil paint.
