Anxiety, paranoia, and the sublimation of personality for social sheen. The generational worries of a globalised monoculture are the focus of The Luster a group show of unnerving art that emphasises the disquiet within the silences of contemporary life. Fittingly it’s in a shop.
Exhibition notes:
The Luster, a group exhibition featuring 10 international artists interrogating digital identity and presence, opens on 8 May as the inaugural exhibition at vitruta Kings Cross – a newly launched concept store in Coal Drops Yard that doubles as a creative hub for design, fashion, culture and collaboration.
Curated by Display Fever, an art platform championing underrepresented voices, the exhibition includes painting, sculpture, sound, and wearable pieces, forming an evocative wardrobe within the space. It interrogates the pressure to be constantly visible in the digital age, exploring contemporary desire and how polished online interfaces and personas can conceal deeper tensions and anxieties.
Artists include: Faysal Altunbozar, Damaris Athene, Solanne Bernard, Paola Estrella (with garments by Gabrielle Venguer), Ela Kazdal (with sound by Iñaki Ramírez Romero), Lera Kelemen, Dilara Koz, Inés Miño Izquierdo, Naomi Boiko-Stapleton, and Ella Yolande.
Set within vitruta’s industrial interior – defined by exposed brick, steel beams, and minimalist design – The Luster creates a dialogue between architecture and artistic response. Site-specific works engage the store’s glossy surfaces, building on its layered design narratives to explore the complexities of our digital age.
Highlights include:
Faysal Altunbozar’s sculptures blend cultural references and playful forms of the body to explore power and pleasure.
Lera Kelemen‘s installations examine femininity, the limitations of bodies in space, and the balance between strength and fragility.
Damarius Athene creates uncanny forms that reimagine the body in a posthuman world.
Solanne Bernard’s ceramic sculptures fuse body and plant forms in surreal explorations of desire, disgust and the boundaries between the living and lifeless.
The Luster
Opening event 8th May 6 – 9 pm
8 May – 15 May 2025
Open every day, 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
vitruta, Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross, London N1C 4DQ
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
