Concerning the Exhibition
We now have all stood someplace, unsure whether or not we had really arrived. Threshold doesn’t dwell on rupture itself. As a substitute, it asks: in that second that’s neither right here nor there, what does the physique do? How does language falter? What does reminiscence maintain onto?
Boundaries usually are not at all times tangible. Typically they’re a joke you don’t perceive, a silence you can’t clarify, the coordinates of a house you can’t discover on a map. Threshold collects these moments, to not resolve them, however as a result of they should be witnessed.
The exhibition brings collectively 14 artists whose works span portray, sculpture, set up, combined media, and ceramics, responding to a single query: when was the final time you felt really current someplace?
Collaborating artists:
Junpeng and Weixi, Ruoheng Li, Ivy Tang, Yuhe Luo, Meng Li, Xiaoxiao Track, Guangyi Luo, Henryk Terpiłowski, Jade Gaskin, Ziyan Xu, Yingming Chen, Jinshuai Li, Isabelle Zetterström, and Soo Hyun Lee.
Chosen Works
Isabelle Zetterström (b. 1995) is an English-Swedish artist based mostly in London whose oil work open portals into ambiguous terrains suspended between the microscopic and the cosmic. In Threshold, her eight work drift between deep seas and celestial views: pulsating kinds unfurl in tones of blood, merging with volcanic greys, whereas noctilucent swimming pools resemble water and floating branches shift into veins. The works in Membronic Secretion and the Big Matter sequence don’t depict the physique a lot as inhabit it, awakening an uncanny sense of awe and unease. For Zetterström, portray is a religious act, a dance with the unconscious that exposes the soul to unseen forces. She summons photographs from the abyss and escapes into them, solely to seek out her personal reflection.
Soo Hyun Lee (b. 1998) is a Korean artist whose watercolour and mineral pigment works examine how people relate to social values reminiscent of care, disgrace, resistance, and love. Her work in Threshold seize emotional terrains the place softness and violence coexist: layered botanical kinds in vivid, stressed color carry figures whose intimacy can be a web site of battle. Every work holds a layered timeline, embodying conflicting impulses of safety and detachment, of nurturing and consuming. In Daring behind the blooming leaves and Daphne, Lee asks what it means to be current inside a relationship, and at what value.
About D Up to date
D Up to date serves as a dynamic platform championing prime rising and mid-career artists, each UK-based and worldwide. Supporting inventive practices throughout a variety of media together with portray, sculpture, digital works, and set up artwork, the gallery fosters crucial dialogue and cross-cultural change. Its annual calendar features a curated sequence of solo and group exhibitions, artist talks, and collaborations with cultural establishments and impartial curators. D Up to date additionally works with world embassies on cultural diplomacy, supporting artists from markets with restricted publicity to world artwork capitals. The gallery is presently situated at 1 Birdcage Stroll, Westminster.
About Whiteshepherd Gallery
Whiteshepherd is a London-based nomadic gallery and curatorial platform working with rising artists whose practices navigate diaspora, displacement, and cross-cultural id. Based in a South Kensington townhouse and now lively throughout a number of London venues, the gallery’s mobility displays a curatorial place that artwork made on the edges of tradition can’t be contained inside a single room. Whiteshepherd works with artists from the earliest levels of their careers, constructing first exhibition ideas, creating sustainable industrial frameworks, and creating the situations for his or her work to be seen throughout cultural contexts. In shut collaboration with Xima Gallery, which operates three areas in China, Whiteshepherd brings artists into dialogue with Chinese language audiences by way of exhibitions, residencies, and artwork gala’s. The gallery doesn’t search to construct a bridge between East and West. It seeks as a substitute to create the situations for efficient friction: moments the place completely different aesthetic frameworks, viewing habits, and important languages meet with out being prematurely resolved.
Exhibition Particulars
| Exhibition | Threshold: Group Exhibition |
| Curator | Ziyan Xu |
| Venue | D Up to date Gallery x Whiteshepherd Gallery |
| Handle | 5F, 1 Birdcage Stroll, Westminster, London, SW1H 9HP |
| Dates | 13 to 18 July 2026 |
| Opening Occasion | 13 July 2026, 3 to five pm |
