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Looking Like Fire
Sim Smith is proud to present Looking Like Fire, the inaugural exhibition at the gallery鈥檚 newly expanded space. This exciting group exhibition includes some artists represented by the gallery, some who have contributed to the exhibition programme previously and others that the gallery is pleased to be working with for the first time. This exhibition continues the gallery鈥檚 interest in intergenerational exhibitions with those at different stages in their careers. The exhibition will host its finissage over Frieze London.
The exhibition aims to unlock a space that we are rarely allowed to enter. It relies on the vulnerability of the subject within the paintings to expose a moment, a connection to the artist who paints them. It is a place where intimate, quotidian moments and life events display powerful emotions behind a veil of freedom or privacy. The show encapsulates experience and atmosphere through observed, imagined and psychological scenes. The exhibition not only invites us to look but to shape our act of looking, with a promise of entering another realm, that of indulgence, pleasure, fear, power and fascination.
The title is taken from the slang use of the word 鈥榝ire鈥� to mean awesome or excellent. Looking like Fire refers to looking attractive but also denotes the idea of fire approaching, a feeling of impending threat or vulnerability. This exhibition bestrides these polarities and their quick unravelling, looking good, attraction, sensation, vulnerability, danger of the unknown, touch, fire on your skin, burning, open, uncontrollable.
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Sim Smith is proud to present Looking Like Fire, the inaugural exhibition at the gallery鈥檚 newly expanded space. This exciting group exhibition includes some artists represented by the gallery, some who have contributed to the exhibition programme previously and others that the gallery is pleased to be working with for the first time. This exhibition continues the gallery鈥檚 interest in intergenerational exhibitions with those at different stages in their careers. The exhibition will host its finissage over Frieze London.
The exhibition aims to unlock a space that we are rarely allowed to enter. It relies on the vulnerability of the subject within the paintings to expose a moment, a connection to the artist who paints them. It is a place where intimate, quotidian moments and life events display powerful emotions behind a veil of freedom or privacy. The show encapsulates experience and atmosphere through observed, imagined and psychological scenes. The exhibition not only invites us to look but to shape our act of looking, with a promise of entering another realm, that of indulgence, pleasure, fear, power and fascination.
The title is taken from the slang use of the word 鈥榝ire鈥� to mean awesome or excellent. Looking like Fire refers to looking attractive but also denotes the idea of fire approaching, a feeling of impending threat or vulnerability. This exhibition bestrides these polarities and their quick unravelling, looking good, attraction, sensation, vulnerability, danger of the unknown, touch, fire on your skin, burning, open, uncontrollable.
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