Where Silence Breaks

Installation view, Where Silence Breaks; Art Forward Gallery, London

This June, Art Forward Gallery presents two concurrent shows, interlinked yet independent of each other: 

Where Silence Breaks and Where the Light Wanders

Running from 11th June to 11th July, Where Silence Breaks features the work  of Caroline Ashley, Lesley Bunch, Sonja Kresojevic, and Réka Laklia Ritt. Material, texture, and surface become central languages, with works that explore transformation, translation, reflection, alchemy, and repetition. Across painting, textile, sculpture, and object-based practice, each artist creates work that holds tension between form and fragility, presence and absence.

In parallel, Where the Light Wanders features Tereza Červeňová, Mariam Menteshashvili, and Charlotte C Mortensson, presenting photography as a site of movement and transformation. Across distinct practices, the artists engage with the relationship between figure and environment, tracing how identity is shaped through memory, place, and lived experience. Here, the photographic image becomes a shifting space — at once documentary and constructed, intimate and distant, grounded and transient.

Across both exhibitions, a shared dialogue emerges — between image and object, light and silence, visibility and withdrawal. Together, they propose the exhibition space as a site of encounter, where meaning is not fixed but continually formed in relation to what is seen, and what remains just beyond it.

11th June – 11th July 
Art Forward Gallery, 12-14 Whitfield St, London W1 2RF
Gallery opening hours: Tues – Fri (11am to 5pm) | Saturdays (By appointment only) | Sunday & Monday (Closed)