ASHES TO ASHES

VENUE46 Ashfield Street, London E1 2AJ

46 Ashfield Street, London E1 2AJ6

OPEN TO PUBLIC

8 February - 8 March 2026, 11:00 - 17:00

PRIVATE VIEW

28 February 2026, 18:00 - 21:00

Walk-ins welcome. RSVP HERE

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning”

- Werner Heisenberg

Structural Inquiry - The Mechanics of the Everyday

Art should operate as inquiry. The exhibition focuses on structures that govern everyday perception: bodily habit, the distinction between natural and artificial production, the authority of visual information, and the persistence of institutional systems. Rather than themes, they are operational conditions that shape how reality is organised and understood

Through deliberate reconfiguration- altering gesture, fabricating organic form in industrial matter, restructuring diagrammatic language, and recomposing established orders - the artists demonstrate that these conditions are neither neutral nor inevitable. They are built, maintained, and repeated

The significance lies in this exposure. Contemporary conditions are increasingly governed by automated information flows, hybridised technologies, and self-reinforcing institutions. Structures that organise perception operate at speed and scale. Recognising their constructed nature becomes necessary. Perception registers difference. The viewer encounters familiar orders under modified conditions and recognises their contingency. That recognition carries consequence. To see how a structure is built is to understand that it can be reconfigured

Epigram in E - Method and Modulation

Material, scale, composition, and presentation are therefore integral to the argument. They are not aesthetic afterthought but analytical tools. Form itself serves as demonstration. Each work tests how meaning is produced and how authority is secured

An epigram is concise. It does not narrate; it proposes. It distils thought into a form that refuses excess. In this exhibition, the artworks operate as concentrated propositions, exposing how structures function and how they acquire authority. E Major carries four sharps. It signifies a deliberate re-tuning. That subtle elevation recalibrates the entire field of sound. Minor deviation alters perception. Epigram in E presents the artists’ calibrated examinations of how order holds and how it can be shifted. Precise in argument, calibrated in method, refined in presentation

The exhibition proposes that understanding structure is a practical necessity. Systems endure through repetition and acceptance. When their construction becomes visible, inevitability weakens. These works introduce precise deviations that reveal the assumptions holding coherence together. Recognition precedes change. That awareness expands agency

“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned”

- Richard Feynman