Subtitle Labs is excited to announce the launch of our first permanent space in Bloomsbury, with our inaugural exhibition, Parasocial, with George Wilkin.
Wilkin, is a British artist, currently in residency at the Sarahbande Foundation. The exhibition will be the artist’s first solo exhibition of works, exploring the relationship between traditional oil painting and our digital contemporary culture. Dedicated to the study of desire, pursuit and its fundamentally visual language, Wilkin probes the ways in which we move and are moved: whether by object, concept or feeling and structures of desire.
The exhibition will explore two streams of deep interest for Wilkin, both fascinated by the painted medium, form and movement. She uses the history of paint to explore expressions of the human condition that can’t help but burst beyond the seams of the work.
For Wilkin, holding a tension between representation and abstraction is essential to maintaining an openness of form, seeking to break open the usually concretized ways in which we relate to imagery. In the work the familiarity of the human figure gives way to a general momentum, a rhythm, that cascades across the five panels. Executed with swift, inaccurate brushwork, the artist forgoes exactitude in favour of force. Forms writhe, pull apart, move together in an ambiguous yet unmistakably human dynamic.
We are delighted to welcome you to the private view on
5th March 2026 - 6:30pm
44 Great Russell Street, WC1B 3JL
By Appointment: 5th March – 31st March
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