LONDON BIENNALE 2023
OLD TOWN HALL, KING'S ROAD CHELSEA
The London Art Biennale presents over 350 artists from all traditions and lines of thought, emerging and established, in a celebration of contemporary art. The exhibition is free entry and takes place on the historic King’s Road in Chelsea offering a museum-quality award show, professionally curated to induce a stimulating, varied yet coherent experience for the viewer.
The Official inauguration of the London Art Biennale 2023 will take place on Wednesday 26th July 2023 and is strictly by invitation only reserved for art collectors, critics, art professionals, the selected artists and their guests. The London Art Biennale is free and open to the public on all other days
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"London Art Biennale 2023" at the Chelsea Town Hall, London
(July 26 - 30, 2023)
The Subconscious consists of seven female figures personifying different emotions within the human psyche: Compassion, Depression, Forgiveness, Joy, Anger, Confusion, and Guilt. Rather than presenting these as isolated states, the composition explores them as interconnected forces that continually shape our emotional identity. Each figure is distinguished by a different woodblock-printed “skin,” with varied textures and patterns suggesting the shifting manifestations of emotion and the experiences that become embedded within us.
At the centre of the composition, Compassion, rendered entirely in charcoal and enlarged to evoke a maternal presence, embraces Depression, symbolizing the capacity of compassion to acknowledge, contain, and begin to heal psychological darkness. This movement leads upward toward Forgiveness, who gently supports Joy, represented by a floral-patterned surface suggesting happiness, vitality, and renewal. Joy rises above Anger and Confusion, darker emotional states associated with impulsive and irrational responses, while Guilt retreats behind Joy in shame, yet remains physically connected through her relaxed hand. These relationships create a circular composition that ultimately returns the viewer to Depression, suggesting that emotional experience is not linear but cyclical, with moments of darkness continually intersecting with the possibility of renewal.
The deliberate use of black and white reinforces the apparent opposition between positive and negative emotions while simultaneously revealing their interdependence. Black evokes darkness, isolation, and despair, while white introduces openness, hope, and the possibility of healing. The two coexist throughout the composition, suggesting that one cannot fully understand or appreciate emotional light without confronting its darker counterpart.
Ultimately, The Subconscious presents the psyche as a constantly shifting constellation of emotions in which compassion can coexist with depression, joy with guilt, and forgiveness with anger and confusion. The figures become interconnected manifestations of a single psychological self, reflecting the complexity, contradiction, and continual transformation of human emotional experience.