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It’s the final few days to view ‘The Enneagram Mask’, Pei Wang’s first UK solo exhibition at Workplace | London. On view until 9 November.

As part of the Fitzrovia Lates taking place tomorrow, Thursday 7 November the gallery will be open with extended opening hours until 8pm.

🔗 Link in bio to explore the exhibition and plan your visit

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Pei Wang, ‘The Outsider’, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace UK.

Now open | Rachel Lancaster’s solo exhibition ‘From Another Room’ at The Shophouse, Hong Kong.

Influenced by her childhood ways of image consumption, namely watching VHS tapes on TV, Lancaster’s paintings possess a luminous quality as if lit from behind. Her works are also characterized by a certain graininess that obscures the time-space of the illustrated narrative, wherein the audience becomes a remote and foreign observer.

As the line of sight comes to an end at the edge of the frame, curious viewers are left to wonder the context beyond, as if reaching the cliffhanger of a story. The allure of Lancaster’s artworks emanates not from the answers they reveal, but rather the questions they leave behind.

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Rachel Lancaster, ‘Never Gone’, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace, UK.

It’s the penultimate week to visit Pei Wang’s solo exhibition ‘The Enneagram Mask’ at Workplace | London. On view until 9 November.

🔗 Link in bio to plan your visit

The ‘extreme close-up’ is a technique which cinema has long employed to reveal more than the human eye might normally see – a device to build empathy between the viewer and the protagonist in the service of a constructed narrative. In the work of Pei Wang, tightly cropped faces are rendered on canvas with meticulous and unwavering detail.

Light glistens on the moist surface of an eye, translucent layers of saturated colour forms skin as minute crevices and folds undulating in and out of focus. Brooding dramatic tension is heightened by the murky chiaroscuro of a darkened background

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Pei Wang, ‘The Outsider’, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace UK.

Coming soon | b chehayeb ‘tomboy heaven’ at Workplace | London (15 November 2024 - 11 January 2025)

Join us for the opening reception on Thursday 14 November 2024 from 6-8pm to celebrate chehayeb’s first European solo exhibition.

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b chehayeb, ‘loud as hell at tio chano’s’, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and OCHI.

On view | Laura Lancaster is included in ‘Urban Oasis’ curated by Art Scope at Middle Eight, London.

Lancaster’s paintings navigate an ambiguous territory between abstraction and figuration, shifting between the sentimental and melancholic, the uncanny and strange. 

Her works explore the interplay of liminal space, and the physical aspect of the paint becoming an entry way for illusion. The result of which is work that is transcient, with figures that ebb and flow as if through a distant memory or a fleeting dream. 

‘Urban Oasis’ continues until 23 November 🔗 Link in bio to find out more.

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Laura Lancaster, ‘Untitled’, 2021. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace, UK.

‘The Enneagram Mask’, the first UK solo exhibition by Pei Wang continues at Workplace | London.

On view until 9 November 🔗 Link in bio to explore the exhibition and plan your visit

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Pei Wang, ‘The Vanity Fair, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace UK.

Opening this week | ‘From Another Room’, the first solo exhibition in Asia by Rachel Lancaster at The Shophouse, Hong Kong.

As if imagery transmitted from a parallel dimension, the artworks elucidate but solitary moments yet each contain cues of continuation. Evocative of suspense and displacement, the exhibition pieces together fragments of an omitted narrative, untold as to whether a memory, a story, or a daydream.

A turned head, an unopened box, an arm that reaches beyond the edge of the canvas – anticipation and the festering feeling of uncertainty are the marks of Lancaster’s works. Realised by the intentional withholding of information, the enticing tension between absence and presence is further enhanced by the artist’s masterful portrayal of imagined textures.

27 October - 8 December 2024
The Shophouse, Hong Kong

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Rachel Lancaster, ‘One Another’, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace, UK.

‘In Holes and Corners’ at The Italian Garden, Great Ambrook is a site-specific project by James Cabaniuk, supported by literary critic and writer Kate Hext. The exhibition explores the historical significance of this Edwardian Garden as a private refuge for its curator Arthur Smith Graham, while reflecting on contemporary q***r experiences.

Through paintings and mixed-media installation integrated into the fabric of the garden, ‘In Holes and Corners’, weaves together past and present q***r narratives, engaging themes of privacy, identity and the fluidity of self-revelation. The exhibition invites visitors to contemplate how LGBTQ+ communities experience time and space differently, considering how Graham’s original vision of the garden as private retreat transforms when open to the public today.

🔗 Tap the link in bio to explore

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Installation view of James Cabaniuk: ‘In Holes and Corners’, 2024; James Cabaniuk ‘Full Moon’, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace UK.

On view | Pei Wang’s solo exhibition ‘The Enneagram Mask’ continues at Workplace | London until 9 November.

In his seminal 1936 essay ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ Walter Benjamin argues that the ‘aura’ - the presence and authenticity of a work of art - is rooted in its singularity and uniqueness within a specific context, whereas mechanically reproduced artforms such as photography and film shift away from the singular aura of the art object towards a democratisation and politicisation. In our age of digital dissemination, Pei Wang’s canvases are a battleground, a site of both homage and challenge, where the aura is not lost but transformed.

🔗 Link in bio to learn more

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Pei Wang: ‘The Vanity Fair, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace UK.

Pei Wang: ‘The Enneagram Mask’ is on view at Workplace | London until 9 November.

The algorithm—a god of our own unwitting creation—demands of images a certain legibility and speed of consumption. Wang’s work resists this with a stoic ferocity. Here, the close-up does not merely serve the algorithm’s insatiable hunger for clarity and immediacy. Instead, it becomes a tool of resistance, a method of slowing the eye, of demanding contemplation and, ultimately, of commanding a more profound engagement. This is painting as an act of defiance, a slow rebellion against the tyranny of the instantaneous.

🔗 Visit the link in bio to view the full documentation and explore the works

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Installation view of Pei Wang: ‘The Enneagram Mask’, 2024 at Workplace | London. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace UK.

Closing soon | Jacob Dahlgren and Carl Kleiner: ‘A Moment of Time’ at ANALOG! at Stephaneum, Bad Goisern, Austria.

The idea that events and human experiences can be captured and embedded in the objects that populate a place transcends the boundaries of what we call reality. Yet most people have experienced something like this phenomenon. Dahlgren and Kleiner use abandoned elements to weave a living archive of the history of place. These delicate representations carefully decipher the traces visible in the fragmented state of the school. The unobtrusive fragments, which convey a new narrative in their new context, emphasise the power of their documentary contribution to the project.

They invite us, the viewers, to engage with something that goes beyond verbal articulation; they shift the narrative to a physical level in space. The sculptural figures each carry a piece of the site’s mosaic, accomplishing the remarkable artistic feat of eliciting new meaning from materials shrouded in the haze of history. The concrete systems cast clear shadows of the light that once animated this place.

On view until October 27, 2024
Curated by Gottfried Hattinger for European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024.

Pei Wang’s solo exhibition ‘The Enneagram Mask’ continues at Workplace | London until 9 November.

Depictions of the face and body align with our innate human reflex and desires that are exploited by digital platforms to feed our perpetual engagement. Wang’s use of casein tempera—an ancient form of paint derived from milk and laden with historical and biological connotations—stands as defiant affirmation of the tactile and the temporal. Surface texture, the play of light and shadow, the subtle gradations of colour—all are given prominence, demanding from the viewer a meditative attention that opposes the scrolling speeds of digital consumption.

🔗 Tap the link in bio to explore the exhibition

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Pei Wang, ‘The Outsider’, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace UK.

Simeon Barclay’s sculpture ‘Pittu Pithu Pitoo’ is now on view at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

‘Pittu Pithu Pitoo’ acknowledges the rich history of sculptors originating from Yorkshire and the dramatic rock formations found in the landscape that inspired artists including Henry Moore. The work’s man-made materials both mimic and contrast with these natural forms, making us think about what is real in our environment.

The scale of the work creates a barrier and the artist asks us to consider the role of objects in dictating how we view the world. The cockrel encapsulates the position of being on the outside, or periphery, whether it be physical, psychological, or both.

🔗 Link in bio to learn more

‘Pittu Pithu Pitoo’ was commissioned by South London Gallery for the solo exhibition ‘In the Name of the Father’, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Workplace, UK.

It’s the last day of Minor Attractions at The Mandrake Hotel. We’ve had a great time sharing Room 14 with who is showing and alongside a selection of our gallery artists.

It’s 20 mins walk from Frieze and 7 minutes from our gallery. Come and say hi! 👋

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Welcome to the non-art fair ‘Minor Attractions’ located at The Mandrake Hotel, London & a 20 min walk from

Tatjana Pieters Gallery and Workplace share Room 14 with with a curated room presenting works by:









next to the following participating galleries:













bains



Vilma Gold
amongst others

Free entry, contact us for more information about the works presented

Visit us in Room 14 at Minor Attractions to view our group presentation with Max Boyla, Laura Lancaster, Rachel Lancaster, Robin Megannity, and Pei Wang.

On view until Sunday 13 October at The Mandrake Hotel, London.

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Laura Lancaster, ‘The Shoreline and The Sea’, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace, UK.

Thank you to Melanie Gerlis, Alexander Morrison and Sofia Hallström for the features on our Minor Attractions presentation in , .official and

Visit us in Room 14 at The Mandrake Hotel where we are showing Max Boyla, Laura Lancaster, Rachel Lancaster, Robin Megannity, and Pei Wang until Sunday 13 October.

🔗 Link in bio to read the full articles

On view | Pei Wang: ‘The Enneagram Mask’ continues at Workplace | London until 9 November.

Join us this evening, Thursday 10 October from 6-8pm for the Fitzrovia Frieze Lates.

🔗 Visit the link in bio to plan your visit

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Pei Wang, ‘The Outsider’, 2024. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace UK.

Pei Wang’s solo exhibition ‘The Enneagram Mask’ continues at Workplace | London until 9 November.

On the occasion of Frieze Week we will be extending the opening hours at our London gallery:

Wednesday 9 October, 9am - 6pm
Thursday 10 October, 10am - 6pm
Friday 11 October, 10am - 6pm
Saturday 12 October, 10am - 6pm
Sunday 13 October, 11am - 5pm

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Installation view of Pei Wang: ‘The Enneagram Mask’ at Workplace | London. Courtesy of the Artist and Workplace, UK.