Selfish
Taking its cue from the emotional clarity of Little Simz’s Selfish, this exhibition considers the body as a site of self-possession, withdrawal and projection. The word “selfish” is not understood here as vanity, but as a necessary act of return: a claim to one’s own image, interior life and limits.
Placed in dialogue with two nudes by Theodor Pallady, the recent works of Dumitrița Razlog and Mihnea Damaceanu shift the nude away from fixed representation. Pallady’s bodies remain held within the intimacy of the studio, composed between gaze, surface and silence. Damaceanu’s figures appear almost dissolved, their pale forms blurred into memory, vulnerability and distance. Razlog’s luminous interiors, by contrast, unfold through colour and transparency, suggesting a psychological architecture in which the self is refracted rather than exposed.
Together, these works ask what it means to be seen without being consumed. Between flesh, room, colour and erasure, the exhibition traces a movement from the observed body toward the protected self.