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Tall Tales of Transparent Things
April 5 - 6, 2019
Fitzrovia Gallery, London, UK
A tall tale is “a story that may or may not be true but contains hard-to-believe details.” Often it’s a story that has undergone a transformation by being repeated, embellished, and exaggerated yet retains a certain power over us. Ironically, being “hard to believe” makes it hard to ignore — and hard to forget.
The very implausability of a tall tale invites questions, encouraging us to think about it again, pushing us to break through what Nabokov in the novella Transparent Things calls the “thin veneer of immediate reality.”
Artists tell stories through their work, but their work also tells their own stories. And we bring our stories to their work. These are the tall tales of transparent things.
Image Gallery

Left: James Middleton Right: Abbie Davies

Gwennan Thomas

Left top: Yonah Taieb Left bottom: Noa Maras Right: Lucy Oates

Drawings: Héloïse Delègue

Lucy Oates

Pao Leng Kung

Pao Leng Kung

Sculpture: Lucy Oates

Lucy Oates

Opening Night

Opening Night

Opening Night

Opening Night

Abbie Davies

Opening Night

Painting: Leon Pozniakow

Opening Night
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