PALOMA PROUDFOOT – A FESTIVAL OF UGLY SOUNDS

Posted on 2025-11-10

The exhibition investigates the gendered histories and cultural associations of vocal utterances, examining how sound shapes identity, emotion, and communication.

Proudfoot’s works consider how, throughout the centuries, women’s sounds have been regarded as obscene and thus have sought to be controlled, curtailed and muted. As Anne Carson writes, ‘putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to the present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.’

Opposite – Gossip, 2025

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2025

The Approach
1st Floor, 47 Approach Road
Bethnal Green
E2 9LY
London

www.theapproach.co.uk

  

JORDAN CASTEEL – COVERING THE HOLES IN OUR WALLS WITH SUNFLOWERS

Posted on 2025-11-10

Borrowing its title from Alice Walker’s 1974 essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens,” recent portraits, landscapes and vignettes muse on the artist’s garden in the Hudson Valley as a reservoir for acts of resilience and vulnerability. Buds are transformed into bounties and personal reflection into a communal experience.

Casteel’s hand clasps a heap of zinnias, dahlias, and amaranth in Offering (2025). In a self-referential portrait, the artist points to an abundant bouquet, hand-grown and in full bloom, revealing the acts of cultivation made in autumn that reverberate into spring. Serving as a sanctuary for Casteel, the garden–a site of growth and decay, of turning dirt into life–embodies a creative endurance in the ebb and flow of seasonal and cultural rhythms. To paraphrase Walker, the garden’s resilience of imaginative spirit endures societal, daily hardship. Growth is willed from nothingness. Inherited fertile ground cycles through generations, and gestures of strength, beauty and defiance that came before echo in tomorrow’s blooms.

Opposite – Jordan, 2025

Exhibition runs through to January 10th, 2026

Casey Kaplan
121 West 27th Street
10001
New York

caseykaplangallery.com

  

RICHARD AYODEJI IKHIDE – INCROCI DEL PASSATO

Posted on 2025-11-03

Working in egg tempera on panel for the first time, Ikhide seeks to bridge artistic traditions ranging from the devotional paintings of the Italian Renaissance to the ritual objects and ancestral knowledge of his Nigerian heritage. In these new works, archetypal figures emerge – parents, children, seekers, holy families – each inhabiting charged symbolic landscapes where the sacred, the ancestral and the personal intersect.

Opposite – Communion, 2025

Exhibition runs through to December 13th, 2025

Victoria Miro
Il Capricorno, San Marco 1994
30124 Venice
Italy

www.victoria-miro.com

  

ANJ SMITH – THE SEQUIN-STREWN NIGHT

Posted on 2025-11-03

British artist Anj Smith presents a new body of painting where precarious psychological states and erotic desire intertwine to disrupt conventional depictions of motherhood and the female nude. Smith’s nuanced portrayals of a female-presenting body challenge the notion of a singular interpretation. Set in the context of toxic, inhospitable ecologies, the work explores the human potential for ingenuity, growth and the ability to thrive against the odds.

Opposite – Maman, 2025

Exhibition runs through to January 24th, 2026

Hauser & Wirth
8980 Santa Monica Boulevard
CA 90069
West Hollywood

www.hauserwirth.com

  

FLORA YUKHNOVICH – BACCHANALIA

Posted on 2025-11-03

Taking inspiration from art historical genres ranging from French rococo and Italian baroque to abstract expressionism, British artist Flora Yukhnovich creates paintings that celebrate materiality and process through shifting, chimerical forms, while seducing the viewer with elusive glints of content and meaning. For her first solo exhibition in Los Angeles and debut with Hauser & Wirth, Yukhnovich will present a new series of large-scale canvases prompted by the centuries old theme of Bacchanalia. In these canvases, lush, swirling brushstrokes evoke the dynamism and intense corporality of both ancient and contemporary hedonism, a past of satyric excesses and a present of consumerism and popular culture glut.

Opposite – Teaser, 2025

Exhibition runs through to December 25th, 2025

Hauser & Wirth
901 East 3rd Street
90013 Los Angeles

www.hauserwirth.com

  

PAUL SIETSEMA

Posted on 2025-10-27

This exhibition brings together new works and older works, including two 16mm films. As seen throughout the exhibition, Sietsema’s work navigates the complex status of representation, exploring how meaning is constructed at the intersection of image and material. If art is a type of cultural language, Sietsema takes a dialectic approach that negates, disables, or redirects the natural flow of communication.

Opposite – Object painting, 2025

Exhibition runs through to December 20th, 2025

Marian Goodman Gallery
79 rue du temple
75003 Paris
France

www.mariangoodman.com