Despite the unprecedented technologies keeping our globalised world connected, many of us are feeling lonelier than ever. Guts Gallery, an exciting space for emerging artists in London, takes loneliness and intimacy as the subjects of its latest group exhibition.
In 1942, the American artist Edward Hopper painted an image that has come to be associated with urban loneliness: a man, his back to the viewer, sits alone in a diner at night; his isolation underscored by a couple on the far side of the bar engaged in conversation with the waiter. Nighthawks casts loneliness with an alluring sheen, as a marker of strong-silent-type individualism.