Exhibitions

Big Mood, Mauro Martinez’s eagerly anticipated debut show with Unit London, centres around the phenomenon of ‘cursed images’. A concept that began on the digital platform Tumblr in 2016, ‘cursed images’ are ostensibly mundane images that are lent significance by unnerving content and/or poor picture quality.

Emily Marie Miller’s work in Mirror Mirror is addressing the issue of personal identity in a society plagued with vanity, it delves deeper into the reflective mechanics behind the relationships we hold with ourselves and with each other.

Liz Markus' Super Disco Disco Breakin will be available to view at The Stables in Covent Garden. The T-Rex works stem from an obsession with the well-known dinosaur Halloween costume, featured in hundreds of videos online where people are attempting to run in them while the giant T-Rex heads fall backwards. Markus finds these T-Rexes endearing: their attempt to appear aggressive contrasted with their utter failure to do so is inherently disarming. She was taken with the proportions and colours of the costumes - as well as the malleability of form - and the multitude of different poses that could be achieved in the costume.

At its core, The Medium is the Message is an exhibition concerned with pigment over pigmentation. It is primarily about the power artistic pigment holds when trying to express an identity free of cliche. The exhibition takes this focus in order to avoid curatorial emphasis being placed on the pigmentation of skin, which can often reinforce such cliches.

This November Unit London will present The Room Where It Happened, Damian Elwes’ first solo exhibition with the gallery, and the next step in his examination of artists and their creative spaces.