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Gallery Exhibition
LYNDON BARROIS JR.
Desert of Promise
10 September – 24 October 2026
Private View: Thursday, 10 September 2026
In September, the gallery will present a solo exhibition by Lyndon Barrois Jr., alongside a guest presentation by Jessica Sarah Rinland. The exhibitions will run through October, coinciding with Frieze London and opening concomitantly with Barrois Jr.’s solo exhibition at the Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art. Working across a range of media, the artist mines references from film, literature, and art history to produce translations and transformations that examine the politics of display and colonial extraction resonant in visual and material culture.
Titled Desert of Promise, the exhibition reorients Barrois Jr.’s focus to the subject of time and the instruments that capture it. Taking guidance from a sentiment that magazines are always a reflection of their time, the new works consider a retroactive resonance in the present moment, drawing from a collection of vintage National Geographic magazines Barrois acquired during a residency at the Jan van Eyck Academie in 2018.
The writer Emily LaBarge will contribute an essay to the accompanying limited edition publication.
Gallery Exhibition
JESSICA SARAH RINLAND
Mutual Interruptions
10 September – 24 October 2026
Private View: Thursday, 10 September 2026
In parallel, invited guest artist Jessica Sarah Rinland will present a selection of works from her ongoing project Mutual Interruption, which explores the ethics of photographing animals. The presentation pairs audio recordings with archival pages from National Geographic magazine that document the life and work of George Shiras III (1859–1942), the inventor of the camera trap. Shiras captured the first nocturnal photograph of wild animals and championed photography as an alternative to hunting. Across Rinland's practice, questions of preservation, conservation, and repatriation are recurring themes, examining how acts of care can also expose histories of violence.
Institutional Exhibition
LYNDON BARROIS JR.
Patinated
Opening September 2026
Buffalo Institute for Contemporary Art, USA
In his first solo exhibition in Buffalo, Barrois Jr. continues his research into the colonial machinations of European powers in Africa, developing a body of work that was earlier presented at the Royal Academy of Arts in London as well as at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.
Fair
ARTISSIMA 2026
GEORGINA STARR: STATIC STEPS
30 October – 1 November 2026
Location: OVAL Lingotto, Turin, Italy
For its third participation in Artissima, Alma Pearl is pleased to return to the Disegni sector with STATIC STEPS (1992), a significant historical installation by Georgina Starr, which anticipates many of the artist’s later collaborations with dancers, performers, and en pointe ballerinas in both film and live performance, such as Before Le Cerveau Affamé (2013), Androgynous Egg (2017), Quarantaine (2020), and her more recent commissions with Hermès: Gelato Balletto! (2022) and Rouge Brillant Silky (2025). The work comprises six large-scale drawings, a video piece and an accompanying artist’s book, and marks Starr’s first-ever installation. Rooted in the history of performance and dance, the work touches upon the legacies of figures such as Martha Graham and the chance-based movement of her student, Merce Cunningham, while also exploring drawing in an expanded field. Paper becomes the point of departure—cut, imagined, set in motion by static electricity, recorded on video, translated into instructional scripts, and ultimately re-elaborated into six large-scale drawings. Finally, tape on the floor marks the boundary of a dance floor, inviting visitors to participate with their own interpretation of the dance moves.
Gallery Exhibition
EVELINA HÄGGLUND
On How to Stand in a World on Fire
November 2026 – January 2027
Alma Pearl will present On How to Stand in a World on Fire, a solo exhibition by Swedish artist Evelina Hägglund (b. 1992), which marks her return to London with a new body of drawings executed in graphite and oil stick on hessian, alongside new and recent sculptures. Hägglund’s new work positions the body as subject, instrument, and medium: a site that absorbs forces of pressure while adapting to instability and testing the limits of endurance. States of ecstatic Dionysian abandon are held in tension with their Apollonian opposites, unfolding through a continual process of negotiation and balance. At a moment defined by ecological, political, and psychological instability, Hägglund’s work considers what it means to stand—both physically and existentially—within systems already in flux.
Off-site Exhibition
MILANO DRAWING WEEK 2026
MARGARITA GLUZBERG
FAUSTO MELOTTI (Collezione Ramo)
21 – 29 November 2026
Location: Palazzo Archinto, Via dei Piatti 6, 20123 Milano
Also in November, Alma Pearl will participate in the Milano Drawing Week with a solo presentation by Margarita Gluzberg, organised and curated by Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, curator of Collezione Ramo (Italian Drawings of 20th and 21st Century). Presented in dialogue with a historical work on paper by Fausto Melotti drawn from the collection, Gluzberg’s presentation explores the connections between musical structures and drawing. Executed using found pencils from the 1950s and 1960s, sequences, variations, and scales materialise as visual and spatial arrangements on paper. Different shades of colour, overlapping planes, and the modulation of the mark evoke the forces at play within a musical score, while their layered fields of colour recall the shifting intensities and ornamental rhythms of the Baroque.
Sound here also becomes a conduit to echoes of the past. The presentation takes place within Palazzo Archinto, the site of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s first commission outside Venice (c. 1730). Severely damaged during the Second World War, the palace lost Tiepolo’s frescoes in the bombing. Sited within this context, Gluzberg’s work explores how the polyphonic structures of memory, music and the passage of time can materialise into abstraction.