A Contemporary Art Exhibition. Between Silence and Surface.
About this Event
Exhibition Dates: 18 May – 30 June 2026
Venue: 49 Linden Gardens, London W2 4HG
Opening Hours: Monday – Friday | 11 am – 5 pm
Ukrainian Art House in London presents Between Silence and Surface. The Appearance of Skin, a curated exhibition bringing together works by Ukrainian artist Limpika Lilac (Alina Pyatnova) and British artist Anthony-Noel Kelly.
The exhibition explores contemporary portraiture as a space of psychological tension and shifting perception, where the image moves between presence and disappearance, surface and interiority. Through two distinct artistic approaches, the exhibition examines how portraiture can exist between visibility and silence, physical form and emotional perception.
Pyatnova works through luminous surface and material tension, creating portraits suspended between realism and sculptural stillness. Kelly reduces the image to a quiet psychological presence, where the figure appears fragile, restrained, and contemplative. Together, their works create a dialogue between inner stillness and surface intensity.
Portraiture here becomes not simply an image, but a way of seeing. The exhibition questions how we perceive the human face today and whether the portrait can still hold emotional and psychological presence in an age of unstable images.
What does portraiture mean today, when reality and perception no longer fully align?
Can portraiture still connect physical form with emotional experience?
Where is the boundary between what we see and how we perceive it?
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Curated by Tetiana Bairaka
Presented by Ukrainian Art House in London
In partnership with the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB) and the Shevchenko Library & Archive, London
Supported by the Embassy of Ukraine in the United Kingdom
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