what bodies of water wear
why do galleries feel like salt hair salon
february 2026
condo is here, one month of galleries from all over the world collaborating in london. one out of twelve months is already over. as the trend forecaster i am, and for the sake of keeping this blog alive, i find myself thinking futuristically about the present. the present’s nature, beauty, and the galleries i have been in and out of.
my most recent job has been dancing to brazilian music next to a freezer. laura lima’s new show at the ica has finally brought a body of water to the mall. no, st james’s park lake was not enough.
this one is a freezer filled with frozen drawings. visitors open and close it, invited to watch how the ice melts and the drawings change. imagens congeladas, that’s the actual title, and i’m excited that for the next three months i will be able to pronounce the name of an artwork distinctly.
thinking about freezers and water isn’t new to me. the first time it crossed my mind was at goldsmiths’ final degree show last year. my friend evie brought a freezer into the studio just as i was thinking about the sea. it expanded my sense of what a body of water could look like.
i’ve also considered buying one of those mini skincare freezers, but they are really ugly. someone should make a silver one, something that actually resembles a real freezer, or one made of aço. gagosian recently showed an aço bathtub. condo, as a festival, seems more into clay masks. hollybush gardens had my favourite show so far, two artists responding to name of the artist who did the fountain. name produced two clay fountains that feel more elegant.
at arcadia missa, you can see paintings inspired by the wild bear crisis in japan, an invasion of nature into city life. nature has never been so literal in galleries, and this feels like the perfect moment for me to preach about this nature cosmetic bridge.
nature and cosmetics are more similar than we think. galleries are clearly obsessed with nature, ironically the more of it there is the less fluid it feels, but this obsession mirrors what we see in salons like salt. minimal, contemporary, crafted, slightly jarring, slightly uptight, yet pretending not to be. both occupy victorian townhouses. both just sell what i’m sure it’s an actual expression, controlled naturalness.
i still really want to cut my hair there and if you gave me a gallery, i’d still turn it into a lake.
february 2026
condo is here, one month of galleries from all over the world collaborating in london. one out of twelve months is already over. as the trend forecaster i am, and for the sake of keeping this blog alive, i find myself thinking futuristically about the present. the present’s nature, beauty, and the galleries i have been in and out of.
my most recent job has been dancing to brazilian music next to a freezer. laura lima’s new show at the ica has finally brought a body of water to the mall. no, st james’s park lake was not enough.
this one is a freezer filled with frozen drawings. visitors open and close it, invited to watch how the ice melts and the drawings change. imagens congeladas, that’s the actual title, and i’m excited that for the next three months i will be able to pronounce the name of an artwork distinctly.
thinking about freezers and water isn’t new to me. the first time it crossed my mind was at goldsmiths’ final degree show last year. my friend evie brought a freezer into the studio just as i was thinking about the sea. it expanded my sense of what a body of water could look like.
i’ve also considered buying one of those mini skincare freezers, but they are really ugly. someone should make a silver one, something that actually resembles a real freezer, or one made of aço. gagosian recently showed an aço bathtub. condo, as a festival, seems more into clay masks. hollybush gardens had my favourite show so far, two artists responding to name of the artist who did the fountain. name produced two clay fountains that feel more elegant.
at arcadia missa, you can see paintings inspired by the wild bear crisis in japan, an invasion of nature into city life. nature has never been so literal in galleries, and this feels like the perfect moment for me to preach about this nature cosmetic bridge.
nature and cosmetics are more similar than we think. galleries are clearly obsessed with nature, ironically the more of it there is the less fluid it feels, but this obsession mirrors what we see in salons like salt. minimal, contemporary, crafted, slightly jarring, slightly uptight, yet pretending not to be. both occupy victorian townhouses. both just sell what i’m sure it’s an actual expression, controlled naturalness.
i still really want to cut my hair there and if you gave me a gallery, i’d still turn it into a lake.