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POROUS ABSTRACTION
BLCKGEEZER, Hoa Dung Clerget, Sophie Goodchild and Luca Longhi



30 January – 22 March 2025
Alma Pearl, Unit T, Reliance Wharf, London


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GalleriesNow Alma Pearl is pleased to announce Porous Abstraction. On view from 30 January, the show features recent work by BLCKGEEZER, Hoa Dung Clerget, Sophie Goodchild and Luca Longhi. While exploring abstraction, these artists move beyond exclusively formal considerations to engage with themes of identity, memory, familial relationships as well as the vicissitudes of lived experience. The media used range from traditional oil paint to tiles, felted wool, glitter and culturally charged materials. 

Installation view


In her large-scale work Essence (2025), created using straw from vernacular Vietnamese brooms, Hoa Dung Clerget mines the legacies of Minimal, post-Minimal and Conceptual Art to explore and then reverse the displacement and fragmentation of culture encountered by the Vietnamese diaspora. Her artisanal production weaves themes of the domestic and displacement through objects charged with material gestures that build narrative content.
 
Installation view


Luca Longhi’s Nothing really happened like I thought it would (triptych) (2025) inhabits spaces between abstraction and representation, touching upon memories and atmospheres, while also becoming the site of the artist’s painting decisions here enunciated through the building up of painterly material and then its erasure.  

Hoa Dung Clerget
Essence, 2025
Acrylic paint and straw from Vietnamese brooms stitched on jute
203 x 330 cm
80 x 130 in
(HDC004)


In this new series, BLCKGEEZER incorporates text from her own social media posts on to signature and powerful black monochrome supports. Written in a diaristic mode, the text reverberates and is animated through the painterly materialities deployed in the matte black that serves as a ground for the luscious glittered letters that convey the artist’s confessional words.

Luca Longhi
Natura Morta 4 (still Life 4), 2025
Tiles, grout, oil, acrylic on board
50 x 40 cm
19 1/2 x 16 in
(LLN002)


Sophie Goodchild’s We Both Begin to Writhe (2022) places focus on the symbolism associated with felt. Tied to seasonality and communal activities of sheepherding, felt derives from the need to protect and contain. Looking back at its origins and the histories of crafts, Goodchild explores the tactile element of felted wool and interaction with the fibres while contending with notions of touch, osmosis and motherhood.

Sophie Goodchild
We both begin to writhe, 2022
Wet felted wool
60 x 195 cm
23 1/2 x 76 3/4 in
(SGD001)

Luca Longhi
Nothing really happened like I thought it would (triptych) , 2025
Tiles, grout, oil stick, acrylic, enamel on board
152 x 194 x 6 cm
60 x 76 1/2 x 2 1/2 in
(detail)



BLCKGEEZER
Black Nausea: Poison keeping you *live (Paynes Grey) , 2025
Acrylic, aluminium glitter, oil on canvas
90 x 60 cm
35 1/2 x 23 1/2 in
(detail)

Installation view