STRESS LINES | London

JD Malat Gallery is pleased to present Stress Lines, a group exhibition that considers pressure as a defining condition within contemporary practice. Bringing together painting and sculpture, the exhibition approaches surface as a site shaped by accumulation, resistance, and sustained force. Form is  treated as something that emerges through what has been applied, layered, or endured over time.

Across the exhibition, pressure operates across multiple registers. Stratified painterly surfaces evoke geological processes such as erosion and sedimentation, while sculptural works reveal material tension through bending, looping, and compression. Gesture appears as residue, recording duration, repetition, and physical engagement.

The body enters this framework indirectly, not as a stable subject but as a surface under strain. Figures are blurred, fragmented, or ritualised, suggesting psychological and physical states shaped by instability and control. Representation gives way to forms held together through tension rather than resolution.

What unites the practices in Stress Lines is a shared logic rather than a shared aesthetic. Each work functions as evidence of force environmental, material, or bodily inviting viewers to reflect on how pressure leaves lasting traces on form, surface, and experience.