Ida Ekblad’s work is a restless collision of high art and street energy. Born in Oslo, she has spent decades blurring the lines between the industrial and the domestic, finding poetry in the way a child mispronounces a word or how a rave flyer looks in the morning light. This exhibition marks her first solo presentation in London, showcasing a practice where nothing is static and every material—from heavy steel to delicate glass—is treated with the fluid urgency of a painter’s brush.

You're watching a world of vivid contradictions. Lace curtains embroidered with 'da SPETTACOLO' frame the Mayfair windows, while heavy bronze sculptures rest on a wooden table like fragments of a dream. Beneath you, pink and turquoise resin benches trap paint-stained plates like fossils in amber. The air feels thick with the smell of oil paint, applied so generously to the canvases that the patterns seem to pulse under the low, diffracted glow of a hand-blown glass lantern.

• Material Alchemy: See how Ekblad transforms industrial steel and heavy bronze into objects that feel as light and spontaneous as a watercolor sketch.
• Immersive Scenography: The gallery is transformed into a semi-domestic space with custom lace curtains and sculptural furniture designed to be sat upon.
• Tactile Scale: Experience paintings with impasto so thick it becomes three-dimensional, merging the boundaries between traditional canvas and physical sculpture.

Walk through the first floor to see the bronze sculpture on the balcony, which acts as a bridge between the busy London street and the gallery’s interior. Take a seat on the resin ‘Painter’s Benches’ to observe the large-scale canvases at eye level; the embedded paper plates offer a literal glimpse into the artist's studio process. Afterward, wander through the historic streets of Mayfair toward Berkeley Square to let the exhibition’s neon palette settle against the city's gray stone architecture.