Wish Lush

J/M Gallery

Wish Lush is a group exhibition presented by the highly regarded Kravitz Contemporary. Running from the 3-7 June, 2022.

JM Gallery

Curated by Elaine Tam and Arthur Gouillart, Wish Lush explores concepts of nature within contemporaneity, engaging in the mythologies of plentiful pasts and interpreting recent declines of nature. With emotions of melancholy and longing, there is complementation with the classical-romantic notions of nature morte.Wish Lush will be accompanied by a critical text, responding to the artworks in the show. The artists featured include May Hands, Louis Appleby, Ryan Brown, Angus McCrum, Luke Burton, Zoe Carlon, Conor Murgatroyd, Suzy Babington, Ranald Macdonald, Paula Turmina and Joao Alves. In addition, we are proud to announce a partnership with the Bricks Gallery Copenhagen, with Peter Larsen and Sofie Burgaard also featuring in the exhibition.

From Kravitz Contemporary:“Against a backdrop of pastoral scenes – which portray a compliant, man-tended earth both generous and abundant – Wish Lush addresses the nature of idyll and exquisite pleasures that art history has made familiar. Citing the ‘supernatural glamour of nature’ (H.P. Lovecraft), Wish Lush explores the enchantment with which we experience nature in contemporaneity. Our solastalgia – the existential discomfort brought about by our awareness of the dying natural world – suffuses landscapes, gardens and plant life with weirdness (Mark Fisher), melancholy and longing. Engaging the mythology of plentiful pasts, this group exhibition instead orients itself towards the atmospherics of nature’s rapid disappearance. Complementing this is the classical-Romantic notion of nature morte, a tradition recognised by its arrangements of fruit and cut flowers. Though historically associated with the ephemeral beauty of human life, the transience of nature morte is now laden with portent, carrying with it ideas of non-human agency and our ever-present climate emergency. Representations of the natural world acquire new meaning with the investments and concerns of a new generation of artists, which the group show Wish Lush seeks to explore in its manifold incarnations. In lieu of a curatorial text, Wish Lush will be accompanied by a creative piece of writing responding to the resulting selection of artworks appearing in the show.”

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