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
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.
EXHIBITION VIRTUAL TOUR
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Adriana Shportan / Aleksandar Bursac / Alessandro Carboni / Alex Hanna / Angelo Asaro / Anastasia Chumakova / Andrew Stevens / Anne Guest / Blair Martin Cahill / Carmen Li / Catrin O'Hara / Celia Liberace / Chen Bozhi / Chen Gang / Christina Camilla Schön / Christine Lee / Cliff Warner / Dom Holmes / Eleonora Rinaldi / Elisabeth Bukenberger / Emmet Kierans / Fernando M. Romero / Francesca Centioni / Grace Ren / Guo Xiaojun / He Yichen / He Yuyue / Hu Minyue / Hu Zeqian / Huang Po-Chien / Huang Wei / Iga Koncka / Ilsa Brittain / Imogen Marsteller / Irina Patrusheva / Jasmine Su Juanyan Gardner / Jane Hughes / Jiwon Kwak / Jim McLernon / John E. Williams / Jose Cardenas Lorca / Leah Jelf / Lee Hardman / Lewis Brown / Li Desheng / Li Shuangqiang / Lin Shu / Lito Apostolakou / Liu Hongrui / Liu Qingran / Luo Shuhang / Luo Tingyan / Lucy Cade / Lucie d’Halluin / Ma Zhenzhen / Magda Delgado / Malin Davies / Maria Bravo / Marie-Therese Heublein / Marian Obando / Mark Lawson Bell / Maximilian Stanley / MIAO / Mike Kelly / Millie Chen / Pan Yihan / Pia Jaime / Rahideh / Ren Haochen / Rob Lenihan / Sachiyo Nishimura / Sanemi Shetty / Stephanie Harlow / Theodore Weywood / Tong Mo / Tracy McBride / Verona Shi / Wang Tianxi / Wang Yaqi / William Lowry / Wonyoung Shim / Wu Yan / Xiao Yuke / Yang Jingtian / Yasmin Eliz Ozyilmaz / Yilina Yang / Yoanna Walden / Yoko Kida / Zhang Kaixiang / Zhang Xiaofang / Zhou Kefan / Zhou Jing / Zhou Yuyue / Zhong Mingfeng / Zhu Minyu / *toooomyng
AWARD WINNING ARTISTS
Curators' Choice Award
Irina Patrusheva
Audience Choice Award
Adriana Shportan
Alex Hanna
Blair Martin Cahill
Guo Xiaojun
Huang Wei
Li Shuangqiang
Liu Hongrui
Maria Bravo
Mark Lawson Bell
Rahideh
Yang Jingtian
Zhang Kaixiang
*toooomyng
PROGRAMMES AND SCHEDULE
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
26 - 31.08.2025, 10:00 - 17:00
OPENING NIGHT
26.08.2025, 18:00 - 21:00
RSVP
MARK LAWSON BELL | TALES FROM BROKEN PLATES
BOOK SIGNING EVENT
28.08. 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
CURATORS' TALK
31.08. 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
AWARD CEREMONY
FABLES
26 - 31 August 2025
Mall Galleries, The Mall, London, UK