Chris Thompson (5-11) is exhibiting in Response to a Request (or spasm of the soul) at Elizabeth Xi Bauer, Exmouth Market.

Exhibiting artists: Judith Dean, Gina Fischli, Nicola Gunnarsson, Sebastian Jefford, Sarah Jones, Richard Kirwan, Hamish Pearch, Cathie Pilkington, Max Prus, Elinor Stanley, Oliver Tirré, Chris Thompson, David Thorpe, Francis Upritchard Robert Walser

Response to a Request (or spasm of the soul) brings together paintings, drawings, sculptures and text that consider what happens when artistic production is shaped by pressures that are not always fully articulated. Rather than resolving the request placed upon them, the works in the exhibition absorb it, sometimes misinterpreting or even pushing against it. Curated by Brian Griffiths, the exhibition examines the space between instruction and impulse, extending his longstanding interest in the artist as an unreliable narrator and exhibition-making as staged and provisional.

Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery
20-22 Exmouth Market
London EC1R 4QE
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