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"Appropriated from gay erotic magazines made between the late 1960s and early 80s, Paul P.’s inimitable portraits of anonymous young men are heartrending. Divorced from their pornographic source material, and drawing on the coded q***r visual language of his predecessors from John Singer Sargent to Marcel Proust, P’.s subjects are caught between the self-consciousness of being observed and the abandon of pleasure that we cannot see.

In The Fugitive Marvels of Sunset at Maureen Paley, these latest portraits are presented alongside unpeopled, semi-abstract paintings of hazy skies, bats, laundry on a line; casting his refined, somehow-shimmering lens over scenes and boys alike, P. invites his audience to view both as contextless snapshots in time, as well as part of more eternal stories of freedom and constraint; beauty and demise. " — Emily Watkins

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Paul P.'s The Fugitive Marvels of Sunset at until 25 July 2026

“Maren Hassinger’s installation Love anchors Raven Row’s new exhibition Nomenclature for the Time Being. The intervention takes place in the seldom-used top floor flat – a space that, much to my surprise, resembles an eclectic time capsule of the 1970s.” –

"Baby Blue Benzo is a portrait of the visual cultures that shape our desire. When, in one scene, the artist herself appears in front of the Mercedes, any risk of self-portrait is immediately deflected as she lies down like One of Your French Girls, playing the girl-in-a-music-video-posing-in-front-of-an-expensive-car, refocusing the viewer’s attention on mediation itself. Underscoring the idea that it is not what is wanted but how and why, at one point Pamela Anderson is substituted for the Mercedes, as the voiceover glosses, ‘The referent is not Pam, it is just generalised desire.’ Another recurring image is a plastic, Playboy-esque, bunny-shaped money box with a vaginal coin slot in the back of its head so overdetermined that rather than, say, toys, s*x, or money, it reads as, all of the above, as all the things you’re supposed to want – in theory. Dulled libido is a common side effect of benzos, after all. This is indeed ‘generalised desire’: want soup." —

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is at until 7 June 2026