Harold Reed: The Breath Between

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Time is the passing of breath. Each breath marks a new moment. We measure time in hours and years, but beneath it all is the breath between, the interval between one exhale and the next.

Both time and breath are invisible. Like our shadow, they are always present but rarely seen. Peter Handke wrote that presence is the thing we deal with “from one breath to the next, from one moment to the next, from one word to the next.” By making breath visible, we find a way of showing time and showing presence.

Inflation and deflation mark the passage of breath through time. The breath between moments of tension or celebration. Between inflation and deflation. Between one thing and another. This series explores that space. The breath between.

ABOUT THE ARTIST / ORGANISER

Born 1995, London, UK. Lives and works in Kilburn, London. Harold Reed is a self-taught painter from London, UK. His work explores unnerving scenes that strip reality bare; aiming to leave viewers suspended in the comical, the strange, and the not-quite-right. Making painted images that feel like they should make sense but somehow don't, deliberately withholding information to keep the viewer unsure. Harold works from staged photography, translating scenes into oil paintings on linen. There's something inherently strange about how we invest objects and gestures with meaning they may or may not hold. Sometimes when you isolate everyday moments, the familiar becomes peculiar, surreal.