🇬🇧 ​​London Art Alert: Tails & Fainters at Herald St Gallery​​ 🐾✨

Just caught German artist ​​Nicole Wermers'​​ sixth solo exhibition "Tails & Fainters" in Bloomsbury - a ​​thought-provoking​​ show housed in a converted antique shop space just steps from the British Museum! ​​🔷 Domestic Tails Series​​ • ​​Hand-stitched faux fur "tails"​​ (up to 25m long!) coiled around industrial cable drums • Playful exploration of ​​social hierarchies in architecture​​ (originally created for an 18th-century Moscow palace) • Some neatly wound, others sprawling across floors - like architectural boundary-pushing 🌀 ​​🔷 Fainters Series​​ • ​​Air-dried clay sculptures​​ capturing women mid-faint in lavish dresses • Challenges classical sculpture's ​​upright male forms​​ with delicate, reclining femininity • That precarious moment between elegance and vulnerability frozen in time 🤎 ​​🎨 Why It Matters​​ Wermers ​​masterfully blends​​ everyday objects with high art to question: ➔ ​​How bodies occupy space​​ ➔ ​​Gender dynamics in art history​​ ➔ ​​Class structures in domestic design​​ 📍 ​​Herald St Gallery​​ 43 Museum St, WC1A 1LY 🗓️ ​​May 22 - June 28, 2025​​ (Closed Mon/Sun) #LondonArt #ContemporaryArt #FeministArt #LondonWeekend