Join us for a guided tour of the exhibition The Hour Before Sunrise / La Hora Bruja at Tube Gallery.
The tour will be held in English and Spanish. The event is free, with advance booking required. Complimentary drinks will be served after the tour.
About Victoria Cantons
Victoria Cantons (b.1969, London, UK) is a conceptual visual artist working in London, UK. Cantons’s multidisciplinary practice inhabits the space between abstraction and figuration, and is presented in multiple mediums including painting, neon, poetry, text, performance, photographs and videos, exploring identity and the boundaries that shape our relationships with ourselves and others. Cantons was raised in a multicultural and multi-religious London home by European immigrant parents—her mother was from Spain and Catholic, and her father was French-Algerian, born to Russian Jewish and Basque parents.
About the Exhibition
The Exhibition The Hour Before Sunrise / La Hora Bruja: is a solo exhibition by London-based artist Victoria Cantons. The exhibition will be on view at Tube Gallery from March 21 – May 23 and features past and present paintings alongside a five meter neon sculpture ‘Six Words (Hope, Faith, Love, Trust, Dream, Believe)’ 2023, combining painterly gesture with image structure, exploring the relationship between image and word, body and space, presence and absence. The work probes the human condition and at the core lies an understanding of identity as multifaceted and constantly evolving. Cantons reflects on the universal complexities of being human.
Cantons’ work inhabits a space where painting, language, and memory intertwine, creating images that resonate on both intimate and collective levels. Her pictorial practice does not conform to a single movement or category; instead, it absorbs and transforms multiple artistic and historical references, ranging from the Renaissance and Baroque to Abstract Expressionism and Conceptual Art. Her paintings carry the gestural quality of Cy Twombly, the emotional intensity of Goya, and the interplay between language and image explored by artists such as Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer.
Her artistic universe emerges not only from art history but also from her own biography. Raised in a multicultural environment and educated in fields spanning science, philosophy, and literature, Cantons develops a body of work where identity, perception, and memory are in constant flux. Her life trajectory, shaped by different geographies and cultural influences, has led to a practice in which the personal becomes a lens through which the universal is filtered.
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Please ensure you register for this event to secure your spot. The guided tour will be held in English and Spanish. Pictures will be taken during this event for social media purposes. Children accompanied by an adult are always welcome.
