Things That were About to be Lost

About

We can never know what is to come: our understanding of how deeply we have longed or loved or held precious only comes from its lack – the things that are about to be lost are the things charged with the pain of the future, but to prepare for their loss is not to experience their presence at this moment – the moment of the Real. These things we lose – whether they are rooted in physical items or not take with them a piece of Self when they go: that is how we know we have experienced loss, we sense a lack within. This paradox brings up concepts of temporalities: in retroactively learning our depth, do we simply long nostalgically, wish unproductively, or do we travel to our former selves, those blissfully unaware usses of the past, and notice the beauty of our former position, crystalizing awaeness in the process? Is the world only real once we’ve lost it, and therefore gained perspective on what we had?

The artists all approach these concepts through the unique painting practices they employ, searching backwards, forwards, and now for the slippery moments just before and after to find those things which tremble on the edge: the things that were about to be lost.

Things That Were About to be Lost

Curated by Hamit Üçok

Kate Howe Studios, LTD. and RuptureXIBIT are proud to present Hawazin Alotaibi, László von Dohnányi, Katya Granova, Heather Green, Kate Howe, Graham Martin, Hamit Üçok and Tweety Shiwen Wang in 'Things That Were About to be Lost' - a show focused around empathy for our naïve former selves.

The exhibition runs from 23rd Oct - 1st Nov 2021, 11-7pm daily

PV on Saturday 23rd October, 5-10pm!

Free entry but booking essential: artsvp.co/katehowestudios

Kate Howe Studios and RuptureXIBIT are located at: 

55 High St., Hampton Wick

KT1 4DG

125 feet from the station

less than 30 minutes from Waterloo, Clapham Junction and Vauxhall

www.katehowe.com