Mid-February gathers momentum with a run of openings that move from reconstructed persona and fractured landscape to digital habit, cinematic transformation and painterly return. Across Soho, Marble Arch and Wharf Road, these new shows trace identity, memory and perception as something constantly shifting—shaped by what we inherit, what we overlook, and what we choose to see again.
Thursday 12th February
Bernheim, Mayfair 6PM – 8PM
Centerfolds, a solo exhibition by Cristine Brache. Centerfolds presents three interrelated bodies of work exploring persona, obsolescence, alienation, and the inherent power dynamics within each.
This entire body of work emerged from Brache’s discovery that Dorothy Stratten wrote poetry, a fact nearly absent from her biographies and documentaries. That omission became a catalyst for the project. As a poet herself, Brache was struck by the intimacy and solitude embedded in Dorothy Stratten’s writing, and by the gap between the inner life it reveals and the spectacle through which she’s culturally remembered.
Additionally, a custom scent, created in collaboration with perfumer Marissa Zappas, operates not as a portrait but as an afterimage—one that exists in space and unfolds gradually as viewers move through the building. @cristinebrache_ @bernheimgallery
Cedric Bardawil, Soho 6PM – 8PM
For her second solo exhibition at the gallery, Ella Wright presents a body of new paintings which find imaginative potential in the otherwise overlooked. Informed by direct observations, fragments of found photographs and dissected film stills, the works act as fractured reflections of her immediate surroundings. Wright zooms in: small zones of ‘unwanted’ growth, branches knotted in power cables, fluorescent light in suburban rivers, moss, lichen and textures in rock and mineral. Through her painting process, this slippery, vegetal matter is abstracted, inviting us to see anew as unexpected images are revealed. @ellacwright @cedricbardawil
Mandy Zhang, Marble Arch 6PM -8PM
Mandy Zhang Art presents Muscle Memory, a solo exhibition by Dylan Doe, curated by Ning Yu.
The show begins with a small but telling slip: a double-tap on a sketchbook page, performed instinctively, as if the paper were a touchscreen. It’s a glitch of habit — a gesture learned elsewhere — and it becomes the key to the exhibition. @dylan.doe @mandyzhangart
Friday 13th February
Victoria Miro, Wharf Road 6PM -8PM
Isaac Julien’s acclaimed film installation All That Changes You. Metamorphosis is a vivid, sweeping, visual poem about change, what it means to transform, to adapt and to survive. Victoria Miro presents the premiere of the five-screen installation of All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, accompanied by new photographic works.
Commissioned to celebrate 500 years of Palazzo Te, Mantua, Italy (where it is currently on view as a ten-screen installation), Isaac Julien’s latest work moves between science fiction, philosophy, ecology and art, imagining new forms of life and identity beyond the human.
Saturday 14th February
Anthony Wilkinson, Soho 2PM – 6PM
Anthony Wilkinson presents Paul Winstanley’s solo exhibition ‘Bringing It All Back Home’.
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