Lewis Hammond: This Glass House
The Perimeter, London
13 September - 20 December 2024
The Perimeter presents Lewis Hammond: This Glass House, the painter’s first public exhibition in the UK. Through baroque and surrealist motif, Hammond takes imaginative departure from both interpersonal relationships and global political events to create charged, fantastical works that mirror deeper realities.
Often fantastical, though always anchored in the present, Lewis Hammond’s work recalls fleeting memories and dreamlike states, cast through a lens inspired by both the Baroque and Surrealist movements. They interweave scenes of myth alongside reality, often depicting half-human creatures inhabiting dark architectural worlds. The paintings are visual explorations of the body’s interpersonal and individual relationships and operate a deeply enrapturing sense of otherness, navigating the fine line between existential dread and human comfort. Hammond’s practice explores themes of stasis, interiority, and contemplation. With a central focus on corporeality and underscored by a tangible sense of the uncanny, his figurative paintings capture a moment frozen in time.
This Glass House travels to The Perimeter from the Kunstpalais in Erlangen, Germany. The second leg of the exhibition features several new works not exhibited in Germany.
LEWIS HAMMOND (b. 1987, Wolverhampton, UK) is a British figurative painter who lives and works in Berlin. Hammond graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2017 where he explains he became enamoured by “the immediacy and relative flexibility of oil paint”. This interest in exploring the materiality of oil paint is evident throughout Hammond’s practice. With his discordant union of dark and earthy tones, the artist renders unsettling and statuesque figures, harking back to conventions established by artists such as Caravaggio, Velázquez and Goya.
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