Alone Together: The Quiet Religion of Solitude

In a time when societal structures foster communication without true community, this show reclaims the bliss of solitary human experience - invoking a sense of nostalgia, quiet reflection, and the profound beauty found in solitude - luxuries too often overlooked in our impersonal world.

Parallel to our growing interconnectedness, there has been a quiet surrendering - a slowly lost sense of the self in solitude - whether that be a bodily sensation, a mental exertion, or simply in a space we feel at home. Moreover, to what extent has that same omnipresent power of connectivity shaped not just how we communicate, but who we are?

 

Our current architecture of society has blurred the boundaries between the public and private self - where there is a revised social contract in place that forces one to constantly perpetuate a persona. Most of modern life now unfolds through the viewing of these curated realities, essentially rewriting human experience entirely. This exhibition invites a return to introspection and presents an authenticity of solitude.

 

Featuring works by Kyle Barnes, Iain Faulkner, Henry Jabbour, Malcolm Liepke, Matteo Massagrande, Jarek Puczel, Christopher Thompson, Luciano Ventrone, and Tim Wright, Alone, Together: The Quiet Religion of Solitude presents the lone figure as a timeless symbol of individualism, power, freedom, and the human condition. These artists, through their diverse practices, reflect on personal and human experiences in an age of disembodied connection.

 

While these artists explore the requiem of solitude in our London gallery space, another show of the same name unfolds at our New York space, Friedrichs Pontone. The culmination of both spaces as a display of the lone figure serves as a solemn meditation on peaceful solitude that escapes our global consciousness. It is not a condition that affects a single entity, but one that echoes through our shared human condition.

 

Alone, Together: The Quiet Religion of Solitude is now open at 74 Newman Street in London. Friedrich Pontone’s opening reception will be on November 1st, with the exhibition located at the gallery’s flagship location at 273 Church Street in New York City.

 

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