“Lewis Hammond: This Glass Home” is the painter’s first public exhibition within the UK. Via baroque and surrealist motif, Hammond takes imaginative departure from each interpersonal relationships and world political occasions to create charged, fantastical works that mirror deeper realities.

Usually fantastical, although at all times anchored within the current, Hammond’s work recollects fleeting recollections and dreamlike states, forged by a lens impressed by each the Baroque and Surrealist actions. They interweave scenes of delusion alongside actuality, usually depicting half-human creatures inhabiting darkish architectural worlds. The work are visible explorations of the physique’s interpersonal and particular person relationships and function a deeply enrapturing sense of otherness, navigating the advantageous line between existential dread and human consolation. Hammond’s apply explores themes of stasis, interiority, and contemplation. With a central give attention to corporeality and underscored by a tangible sense of the uncanny, his figurative work seize a second frozen in time.

“This Glass Home” travels to The Perimeter from the Kunstpalais in Erlangen, Germany. The second leg of the exhibition options a number of new works not exhibited in Germany.

Lewis Hammond (b. 1987, Wolverhampton, UK) is a British figurative painter who lives and works in Berlin. Hammond graduated from the Royal Academy Faculties in 2017 the place he explains he grew to become enamoured by “the immediacy and relative flexibility of oil paint”. This curiosity in exploring the materiality of oil paint is obvious all through Hammond’s apply. Together with his discordant union of darkish and earthy tones, the artist renders unsettling and statuesque figures, reminiscent of conventions established by artists resembling Caravaggio, Velázquez and Goya.

Positioned inside a liminal house between the person and archetypal, Hammond’s works play to the artist’s distinctive interpretation of the Surrealist custom. The fantastical aura of his items derive from their symbolic potential, and the shifting views from which they are often interpreted. The work encourage a way of formality and mythology, because the artist himself describes, they’re “sideways reflections/representations of the complexities of lived expertise—insecurity, anxiousness, and the alarming socio-political panorama.” Certainly, inside his work, Hammond is “concurrently mining and inventing, nothing is mounted.”

The work in “This Glass Home” are offered alongside a soundscape created by British musician Darren J. Cunningham aka Actress (b. 1979, Wolverhampton, UK). Probably the most preeminent voices in UK digital music, Actress credit a various array of genres, together with early Nineteen Eighties funk and electro, in addition to home and noise. His music reaches disorienting heights, offering an apt soundtrack towards which to view Hammond’s charming and unsettling items.

at The Perimeter, London
till December 20, 2024