Dark Carnival

We are delighted to present Dark Carnival, an exhibition of the work of Dereck Harris, the celebrated London-based artist and co-founder of Cubitt Artists.

Harris is known for evoking the digital screen in his practice and acknowledging the web as an open source for imagery, with its own tropes of communication. His paintings depict contemporary dancers captured, frozen in time, in the moment of a baroque spectacle. In the tableaux of his painted stages, the discomfort of the player’s body flexes like a muscular metaphor for inward struggle and psychological resistance.