Interlude: Hannah Archambault, Jack Evans, Simon Job, Lucy Neish, Max Petts and Fa Razavi | Curated by Kollektiv Collective

Interlude is a site-specific and circumstantial exercise of spontaneity and what it means to produce work under the constraints of linear time. The exhibition is curated by Kollektiv Collective who take inspiration from the specificities and context of a given space, and consider the circumstances and constraints tied to their respective project. As such, Interlude came together within the last four weeks and is thus in itself an intermediary, a temporary in-between, an interregnum that connects the previous and the successive Kupfer exhibitions by mere virtue of time and space. Thus, the exhibition – in itself a creative project that will only ever exist in an imperfect and thus supposedly unfinished state – echoes in the artworks themselves, with each piece reflecting on this mode of production and the (un)certainty of artistic completion. And as Susan Sontag wrote, “Something like the dread of being stopped prematurely lies behind these…”

Hannah Archambault is an French-Polish artist and composer based in London. She started her artistic journey with photography at Les Gobelins in Paris before pursuing arts at the Royal College of Art where she started to build sensory installations.

She is interested in how our personal lives are interwoven into the collective and think her works are territories to feel and raise questions.

She will release her second EP on June 2023 with the Spanish Label Glossy Mistakes and  currently leads a weekly writing club in London.

Jack Evans lives and works in London. Since graduating with a BA from Central Saint Martins (2015) he has exhibited internationally, including Fresh Air Sculpture 2022, Quenington, Gloucester (upcoming 2022); In With The Old, P.A.D Retrospective at Walter Elwood Museum, Amsterdam, NY (2021); Stones Throw, Project Art Distribution, Soho, NYC (2021); Summer Exhibition 2020, Royal Academy (2020); Bold Tendencies, London (2020); In Ruins, Meadow Arts @ Witley Court & Gardens (2019). In 2020 Evans won The Arts Club Award for his work ‘Did You Like That’, at the RA Summer Exhibition.

Simon Job is a London based artist originally from North Wales. Holding his MA from Chelsea College of Art and his BA from Liverpool John Moores University, He has exhibited in the UK, Japan, Germany and Taiwan.

Working with common techniques such as drawing, painting, and printmaking, Simon looks for ways to subvert these mediums, putting into question their own validity by exploring the boundaries of their conventional usage.

Lucy Neish is a painter currently living in London, UK. She received her BA in Fine Art in 2020 at Chelsea College of Art. She gathers images for use in painting from screenshots of films, or inadvertently captured images in her camera roll, or poached pictures from WhatsApp groups. In painting these images through the same sepia green lens, they become unified by an implied gaze. They are tautologous, each recasting the same feeling of nostalgia. Her nostalgia is not rose-tinted; it is murky and unsettling.

Max Petts is an artist and writer living and working in London. Recent shows include 'Baggage Claim’, Staffordshire Street (2023), 'Present Tense', Deptford X (2022), and the two person show ‘flowers' (with Robert Orr), Xxijra Hii (2022). 

They graduated from Chelsea College of Art in 2012 and will complete the Goldsmiths MFA later this year.

Fa Razavi lives and works in London, UK. Razavi is a multi-disciplinary artist that works with film, performance and object-making as well as painting. Fa’s work explores ideas and experiences of displacement and memory.