CURRENT SHOW
STATES OF TRANSITION
SOLO SHOW BY PERSPICERE AT SAATCHI GALLERY
21ST MAY - 13TH JUNE 2026
States of Transition, a new body of work by Perspicere, continues his meticulous exploration of the human condition through thread. Each piece is built by wrapping thread around nails, layer upon layer, colour upon colour, until a photo-realistic portrait emerges from thousands of intersecting lines.
Perspicere, Latin for “to see clearly” or “to see through”, subjects that very idea to scrutiny. Veil-like forms and shifting surfaces complicate the act of seeing, while the work itself changes depending on distance, reflecting the way perception is fluid and unreliable.
This new series turns toward the uncertain space between one state of being and another, between presence and absence, visibility and concealment. Meaning is not immediately given but gradually uncovered, inviting an active process of looking, questioning, and reconstructing what is seen.
‘States of Transition' opens with a private view at Saatchi Gallery on Thursday 21st of May 2026.
The exhibition runs until June 13th 2026.
SUMMER WARP OF WOVEN TONGUES
SOLO SHOW BY VALESKA HYKEL AT BSMT
CURRENT SHOW
4TH - 21ST JUNE 2026
As the sun turns towards us and the days grow longer with a heady heat, so BSMT Gallery will mark the richness of the season with the opening of Summer Warp of Woven Tongues, a solo exhibition by Valeska Hykel.
The longest day of the year stretches into something both ancient and other. Summer Warp of Woven Tongues threads abstract gestures as desire lines to a world that blooms with heightened, almost hallucinatory life. Traditional folk-wear and rural ritual surface like fragments of shared cultural memory tied to land, season and ceremony. Colour intensifies, forms break
down and the familiar slips into the psychedelic- a sensory landscape where memory and time loosen and perception bends. Hykel invites us into a solstice state: a moment of return suspended in light.
Hykel’s monotypes exist in a space between painting and print, by working directly onto the mesh of the silkscreen she treats printmaking as an ever evolving ritual. Her images are not simply transferred but conjured. Marks degrade, colours bleed into one another, and the surface
carries the ghosts of its own making. What remains is something alive and half-remembered: the echo of a gesture, the afterimage of ceremony, the shimmer of a world caught between bloom and decay.
There is a tension in Hykel’s work between control and surrender. Her process begins with the hand, with the immediacy of painting, but passes through the mechanics of print where chance, resistance and loss become part of the image. The resulting works feel woven from contradiction: delicate yet feverish, folkloric yet strange, intimate yet expansive. They hold the
atmosphere of midsummer at its most unstable, when the natural world feels overlit, overripe, almost speaking.
Summer Warp of Woven Tongues opens with a private view at 6pm on Thursday June 4th at BSMT Gallery, Dalston. The exhibition runs until Sunday June 21st, the summer solstice, closing on the longest day itself.
Opening night drinks are generously sponsored by Jubel.
For RSVP, catalogue requests or press enquiries please contact hello@bsmt.co.uk
