Curated for Barakat Gallery.

58 Brook St, Mayfair.

25 June - 30 August, 2019.

The smooth is the signature of the present time. It connects the sculptures of Jeff Koons, iPhones and Brazilian waxing. Why do we today find what is smooth beautiful? Beyond its aesthetic effect, it reflects a general social imperative. It embodies today’s society of positivity. What is smooth does not injure. Nor does it offer any resistance. It is looking for Like. - Byung-Chul Han, Saving Beauty

Produced for Barakat Gallery and curated from their collection ‘Unglazed’ presented a diverse collection of awkward, uncanny and imperfect ceramic work spanning over eight millennia of human history.

Working with the fissures, cracks, imperfections and moral complexities implicit in both as well as the collection’s context the show attuned itself to the beauty of our often awkward, fumbling, human touch - channelling and celebrating the diverse, quirky and often self-contradictory impulses of the human creative spirit and makers long anonymised by history.