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Doing Superfutures: Visions for the future

For a dose of arresting art, hop along to Selfridges, where you’ll find an exhibition of 13 experiential works by leading contemporary artists, brands and thinkers that explore and imagine tomorrow’s world. Curated in collaboration with Berlin’s Reference Festival and installed across the London store, Superfutures prompts visitors to consider how we might live, what we might look like and how we will behave.

‘The Superfutures exhibition will present past and future universes, full of mutation and cohabitation, blurring boundaries between the organic and crafted, between human and machine, and existing outlooks and normative gestures into reshaping our future,’ says Mumi Haiati, Founder of Reference Studios and Reference Festival.

As you meander around the store, you’ll encounter an installation of sculptures by Estonian artist Katja Novitskova, examining the relationship between technology, biology and ecology; and a specially commissioned display of five inflatable sculptures by Monira Al Qadiri, which is paired with a selection of oil-drill shaped Murano glass sculptures.

This is the future of retail, so don’t miss out.

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Dates
14 July 2022 — 16 October 2022

Viewing Kristof Santy: La Grande Bouffe

A carton of eggs, a succulent strawberry and a steaming coffee pot: this is an exhibition dedicated to the simple pleasures of everyday gastronomy. The 17 new paintings currently on display at Unit London are by Kristof Santy, the Belgian artist best known for his use of flat planes, bright colours and universal imagery that eludes any sense of narrative.

Inspired by a range of artists and aesthetics, from Philip Guston and Jean Brusselmans to Pop-Art and folk art, Santy considers himself a visual translator of the everyday. ‘The expressive way of painting plain subjects felt like an enormous freedom to me,’ he once said of his distinctive aesthetic.

Shown alongside close-up paintings of kitchen essentials like toasters, coffee pots, graters and corkscrews are larger works depicting points of sale such as a butcher’s shop and a fresh fish stall. There’s also a vibrant painting of a moored fishing boat, featuring a nonplussed dog and a trio of hungry birds eyeing up their prey. Not surprisingly, La Grande Bouffe is a visual feast to be savoured. Enjoy.

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Dates
05 July 2022 — 06 August 2022

Doing Ilana Savdie: In Jest; Danica Lundy: Stop Bath; Louise Giovanelli: As If, Almost

A trio of solo shows lands at White Cube Bermondsey this month. In Jest, the first solo exhibition in London by Colombian artist Ilana Savdie, features new large-scale paintings and drawings which look at themes of performance, transgression, identity and power. Inspired by the Colombian ‘Carnaval’, she explores theatrical themes relating to the circus, as well as repeating motifs including curtains, hooves, balls and hoops.

Danica Lundy’s first exhibition at White Cube, meanwhile, includes a group of monumental paintings — produced in the wake of her father’s death — that employ disorienting perspectives and narratives to explore the inner workings of bodies, machines, power structures and loss. Expect compositionally complex paintings filled with a rich bank of references, from the epic to the banal, and the torrid to the ecstatic.

Then there’s an exhibition of new paintings by Louise Giovanelli which explores new modes of devotion and worship — notably the cult of celebrity — in an era when so much of society is disengaged from religious and spiritual belief systems. Also on show are paintings that explore themes of performance and social rituals such as drinking.

These are three very different shows, but all are well worth a visit.

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Dates
08 July 2022 — 11 September 2022
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