Join us for the opening of Sophie Podolski and Milly Thompson’s exhibitions, featuring a reading of Podolski’s ‘graphic poems’ by Donna Marcus Duke at 7.30pm.

Food will be available from 7pm, and this will be an extended preview until 10pm.

Wisdom Should be Sung is the first solo exhibition of work by Sophie Podolski (b.1953–d.1974, BE) in the UK, and includes drawings, etchings, collages, archival materials, and texts from her phantasmagoric imaginary. A visionary poet, writer, and artist, Podolski’s body of work is remarkable for its volume – consisting of over three hundred drawings, graphic poems, and a novel, Le pays où tout est permis / The country where everything is permitted (1972) – especially given it was made across a tragically short time span of six years; Podolski took her own life at 21 having suffered from adolescence with schizophrenia.

My Body Temperature is Feeling Good is the largest exhibition of work by Milly Thompson in the UK to date, and presents works from 2010 onwards, in which she irreverently lampooned the hegemonic force of luxury consumer culture on women and celebrated the middle-aged female body for its libidinal power. Across the exhibition a strongly rendered sense of the female gaze is established, privileging female desire, glamour, and a purposeful slipperiness of artistic voice and persona that constantly questions the stakes of making art.

All are welcome!

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