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CHAMPAGNE TASTES ON BEER MONEY : A Debut Show by Victoria Cantons | It's 2020 For F*ck Sake – A Thirteen Artist, Back-to-Back Solo Exhibition Marathon

Past exhibition
10 - 14 Dec 2020
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CHAMPAGNE TASTES ON BEER MONEY , A Debut Show by Victoria Cantons | It's 2020 For F*ck Sake – A...

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I waited at the junction, leaning against the traffic light.

The sky was a perfect light blue, not a cloud in sight

Not even the trails of planes off to their destinations.

People walked up and down the pavement,

Anonymous 

Faces covered by masks

Hands wrapped in latex

Everyone in their own thought bubbles. 

Where is my tribe?

Where are my people?

Lost in digital gloom 

I’m travelling through a zombie wasteland.

I can dream and I will dream

I want to be part of the world's future.

So don't call me by your label

Because I'm not.

Don't tell me to look in the mirror

And see the face you want me to see, and tell me to recognise

An unfamiliar place - I have a map

And I have a home.

I will be defiant

I will have my land

My name is on the paper

And that is my truth.

I will be better, stronger, greater

Than anything or anyone you can imagine.

I will be the beauty of the butterfly. 

But then I prayed for an angel 

And no angel came, 

There are rules and regulations 

And people don’t read and don’t listen.

It’s all about money and nothing breaks like a heart.

 

Victoria Cantons is an artist who happens to be a woman, transgender, and gay. As a trans woman she is keenly aware of limitations and stigmas, which leads her to question how much freedom we have and where our boundaries lie. Cantons wants to understand as much as she can about what it means to be human. She believes that what we as individuals present to the world is multifaceted and not always visible; a continuous evolution in response to experience, and in relationship to each other. The human condition and questions of identity are central to her work. Cantons is interested in themes of power, identity, and male and female perceptions of each other. She says “These aspects connect us all and yet we are also unique individuals”.

 

Cantons’ painting is figurative and she could be described as a colourist. She is interested in the dialogue between painting’s contemporary iterations and its histories. Cantons uses drawing and written notes combined with found and made photographs to navigate between intuitive, intellectual, and aesthetic content informed by a multinational, -cultural and -religious background.  An interest in the internal-external dichotomy manifests in an attention to scale, to how shadows form, and to where absences appear. Memories of being different suggest the need to use masks and camouflage as protection, while influencing the paintings as they evolve in an exploration of identity, self, and representation.

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Works
  • Victoria Cantons A LONG LASTING CARESS, 2020 Oil on linen 30 x 25 cm
    Victoria Cantons
    A LONG LASTING CARESS, 2020
    Oil on linen
    30 x 25 cm
  • Victoria Cantons ALL THE WORDS I CANNOT SAY , 2019 Oil on canvas 180 x 135 cm
    Victoria Cantons
    ALL THE WORDS I CANNOT SAY , 2019
    Oil on canvas
    180 x 135 cm
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  • Victoria Cantons, DON'T BE FRIGHTENED YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S COMING BUT DON'T BE FRIGHTENED OF KNOWING, 2020
    Victoria Cantons, DON'T BE FRIGHTENED YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S COMING BUT DON'T BE FRIGHTENED OF KNOWING, 2020
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  • Victoria Cantons, DON'T BE TOO SCARED TO OPEN YOUR EYES BUT DON'T BE TOO SCARE TO CLOSE THEM, 2020
    Victoria Cantons, DON'T BE TOO SCARED TO OPEN YOUR EYES BUT DON'T BE TOO SCARE TO CLOSE THEM, 2020
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  • Victoria Cantons DON'T HAVE A NEGATIVE THOUGHT, BE POSITIVE, 2020 Oil on linen 45 x 35 cm
    Victoria Cantons
    DON'T HAVE A NEGATIVE THOUGHT, BE POSITIVE, 2020
    Oil on linen
    45 x 35 cm
  • Victoria Cantons I JUST WANTED YOU, 2020 Oil on canvas 30 x 25 cm
    Victoria Cantons
    I JUST WANTED YOU, 2020
    Oil on canvas
    30 x 25 cm
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  • Victoria Cantons IF WE COULD ONLY KISS THE WAY WE USED TO, 2019 Oil on linen 40 x 35 cm
    Victoria Cantons
    IF WE COULD ONLY KISS THE WAY WE USED TO, 2019
    Oil on linen
    40 x 35 cm
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  • Victoria Cantons NOTHING BREAKS LIKE A HEART, 2019 Oil on linen 180 x 160 cm
    Victoria Cantons
    NOTHING BREAKS LIKE A HEART, 2019
    Oil on linen
    180 x 160 cm
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  • Victoria Cantons SEHNSUCHT, 2020 Oil on linen 30 x 25 cm
    Victoria Cantons
    SEHNSUCHT, 2020
    Oil on linen
    30 x 25 cm
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  • Victoria Cantons THE ONE THING WORTH WALKING THROUGH FLAMES FOR, 2020 Oil on linen 35 x 30 cm
    Victoria Cantons
    THE ONE THING WORTH WALKING THROUGH FLAMES FOR, 2020
    Oil on linen
    35 x 30 cm
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  • Victoria Cantons THOUGH I CAN'T RECALL YOUR FACE I'VE STILL GOT LOVE FOR YOU, 2020 Oil on canvas 30 x 25 cm
    Victoria Cantons
    THOUGH I CAN'T RECALL YOUR FACE I'VE STILL GOT LOVE FOR YOU, 2020
    Oil on canvas
    30 x 25 cm
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  • Victoria Cantons YOU KNOW DAMN WELL THAT FOR YOU I WOULD RUIN MYSELF, 2020 Oil on canvas 30 x 25 cm
    Victoria Cantons
    YOU KNOW DAMN WELL THAT FOR YOU I WOULD RUIN MYSELF, 2020
    Oil on canvas
    30 x 25 cm
  • Victoria Cantons YOU TAUGHT ME A SECRET LANGUAGE I CAN'T SPEAK WITH ANYONE ELSE, 2020 Oil on linen 30 x 25 cm
    Victoria Cantons
    YOU TAUGHT ME A SECRET LANGUAGE I CAN'T SPEAK WITH ANYONE ELSE, 2020
    Oil on linen
    30 x 25 cm
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Press
  • IT’S 2020 FOR F*CK SAKE

    ART PLUGGED, ART PLUGGED, 30 Sep 2020
Press release
Guts Gallery and Soft Punk Magazine are proud to collaboratively present “It's 2020 For F*ck Sake”, a thirteen artist, back-to-back solo exhibition marathon, running from 24 September 2020 to 21 December 2020, first in a railway arch under Haggerston Station.
 
Born from a desire to refuse the conditions of silence, paralysis, and erasure brought on by our current social and political climate, this exhibition series has been conceived as a means of exhibiting some of the most promising practitioners of the new generation, creating space for display, experimentation, and artistic ownership in an otherwise compromising market. 
 
Actively aware of the scarcity of shows for underrepresented emerging artists, each artist exhibiting has been given full license over the space. However, this is an exhibition marathon founded in community — while each artist has a solo show, the broader ethos is one of collaboration, accessibility, progress, and collective shouldering of one another.
 
At a moment when the arts sector is on the brink of a major crisis, we are committed to continue putting our community first, paying fair wages, and providing sustained support for artists in any way we can.
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