FABLES | SWANFALL ART ANNUAL EXHIBITION 2025

VENUE

Mall Galleries, The Mall SW1, London, UK

OEPN TO PUBLIC

26 - 31 August 2025, 10:00 - 17:00

PRIVATE VIEW

26 August 2025, 18:00 - 21:00

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INTRODUCTION

SWANFALL ART returns to Mall Galleries, London in August 2025 with its annual exhibition. Titled Fables, the show examines narrative as a method in contemporary art, reflecting a wider shift from expression to resonance.

Art’s power lies not only in representation, but in transformation - in awakening perception, forging connections, and disclosing essence. It renders the abstract perceptible and gives form to the ineffable.

Amid ongoing global uncertainty, there is a growing fatigue with formalism and aesthetic detachment - a change increasingly evident across artistic discourse. The experience of art is moving away from self-expression toward emotional and intellectual resonance. Collectors and audiences are turning their attention to conceptual depth and affective force, rather than technical virtuosity or stylistic novelty. This turn reflects a deeper, often unspoken, collective longing for memory, identity, and shared experience.

Story remains a vital way of organising time, understanding change, and locating ourselves in the world. Narrative today is being redefined - not simply as storytelling, but as a structural and perceptual framework. Contemporary works often resist singular viewpoints or linear conclusions, instead inviting open-ended interpretation.

This year’s exhibition responds to this shift - from explanation to insight, from statement to shared experience. Spanning painting, installation, moving image, text, sound, and performance, the works in Fables embody narrative in diverse and often unexpected ways. Some unfold gradually, revealing layers of implication through sustained engagement; others deliver an immediate impact that lingers long after the encounter. Together, they create a multi-sensory, multi-temporal environment in which narrative is not merely conveyed but inhabited, refracted through each viewer’s own histories, associations, and perspectives.

We seek to share works that generate rhythm, provoke thought, and animate the space between feeling and idea, pieces that may resist explanation yet resonate deeply within the silent structure linking image and idea, gesture and memory. Here, art does not affirm what is already known but extends the boundaries of perception, offering stories that evolve as they are experienced, and truths that shift as they are seen.