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CURRENTLY ON: Lydia Pettit’s solo Meet Me in the Market
Miłość is hungry to announce Lydia Pettit’s first solo show with the gallery, "Meet Me in the Market". Through oil painting, the exhibition explores the preparation of the body and personality for dating, drawing parallels between dating apps and the rituals of preparing food. We serve an idealised version of ourselves to strangers, who do the same, at a marketplace with little protection for those most vulnerable to consumption. What are you willing to do to yourself to become appetising? Which parts of yourself will you serve? What will you sacrifice to be seen as delicious, rich and fatty, and sickeningly sweet?
Dating apps stand as markets, where we construct identities based on what others desire; funny quips and flattering photos creating a facsimile we browse through for purchase. We take on a role of a butcher prepared to cut down to size to be palatable, while it is our own body that awaits slicing, marinating, cooking and serving to strangers.
In ‘Meet Me in the Market’, Lydia plays both roles: the animal ready for roasting, and the butcher doing the cutting, artfully carving the most attractive parts of the self out for presentation. The viewer gets to witness the preparation stage – twine holding flesh together, rosemary, thyme pressed into skin, oil, onion, and lemon seasoning the body. A delicate elegance of finely plated food shrouds the gruesome nature of what we are willing to do to ourselves to be wanted, and the lengths we go to satisfy hunger.
Included in the exhibition is also one of photographic studies Lydia develops in collaboration with the Scandebergs duo, ‘Tender’. The exhibition text, ‘Butcher’s Hook’, was written by Mai Harris.
OPENING 18 SEPT 6-9PM IN WARSAW | Diorama Day-to-Day by Kate Burling
18-27 Sept 2026
al. Jana Pawła II 36
00-828 Warsaw, Poland
[Pracownia Luz]
Open by appointment and during opening hours of Warsaw Gallery Weekend
Warsaw Gallery Weekend+
18-20 Sept 2026
Warsaw, Poland
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‘Diorama Day-to-Day’ is Kate Burling’s second solo exhibition with miłość gallery. Through the artist’s unique technique of finger-painting, she expands her material vocabulary to include paper installation alongside surrealist scenes of idyllic, contained landscapes. These dioramas, scattered with a confetti of repeated motifs, explore ideas of control. They shape perceptions of the world into something softer and sweeter, yet ultimately artificial and unattainable.
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‘Diorama codzienności’ to druga solowa wystawa Kate Burling z galerią miłość. Przy unikalnej technice malowania palcami artystka poszerza paletę materiałów o instalację z papieru obok olejnych surrealistycznych scen idyllicznych i wyłączonych krajobrazów. Dioramy, rozsiane niczym konfetti z powtarzających się motywów, podejmują temat kontroli. Burling kreuje światy łagodniejsze i słodsze, lecz sztuczne i nieosiągalne.
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