MATERIAL WORLD

VENUE

46 Ashfield Street, London E1 2AJ

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

12 - 17 May 2026, 11:00 - 17:00

PRIVATE VIEW

12 May 2026, 18:00 - 21:00

Walk-ins welcome. RSVP HERE

CURATORIAL STATEMENT

“All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.”

- Albert Einstein

The world as it exists in itself is not identical to the world as it is lived. At its most fundamental scale, the world does not simply present itself as stable, discrete, or self-evident. Modern physics has unsettled that assumption. At the quantum level, matter may be described in terms of probability rather than fixed position, and observation is not always separable from outcome. What appears solid and resolved in ordinary experience is, at another scale, contingent, relational, and not fully determined

The universe inspires awe. It is vast, formidable, and still profoundly unresolved. We accept its complexity, its uncertainty, and the limits of our knowledge. Precisely on that basis, we recognise the importance of reality as it is lived, sensed, and made tangible through experience: in the touch of another hand, the grain of a faded photograph, the cadence of a voice, the resonance of a sound, the worn surface of a familiar object, or the trace of movement across space

We live in a world of touch, sound, image, texture, distance, rhythm, and form. We encounter reality not as an abstraction, but as experience. Across painting, sculpture, installation, moving image, text, sound, and hybrid forms, the exhibition considers how the world becomes available through the senses. What connects these works is not medium, but method: a shared attention to perception as a way of knowing, and to the ways reality is felt, seen, heard, and made legible in experience

The title names not the world in total, nor the world in its final physical description, but the world as it is encountered: tangible, sensory, proximate, and shared. If physics reminds us that reality exceeds appearance, art reminds us that appearance is not, therefore, trivial. To see, to hear, to touch, to feel, and to move through space are not lesser truths. They are among the conditions through which a world becomes inhabitable, intelligible, and real

EXHIBITING ARTISTS

Aleksandar Bursac / Fernando M. Romero / Grace Ren / Jihoon Cho / Lucas Bullens / Luo Xiaohan / Maximillian Stanley / Sachiyo Nishimura / Shavonne Yang / Yang Yang / Zhang Kaixiang