Gareth Long
Leopards, Laughter, Razors, Drift
26 February to 11 April 2026
| Gareth has divided the works in this exhibition into three seemingly disparate but thematically related chapters or vignettes by research paths veering between an aphorism of Franz Kafka, a 1930’s medical journal, and King Camp Gillette of disposable razor fame. Kafka’s aphorism about leopards breaking into a temple articulating how culture is produced by repetition, the French medical journal translated title reading, “one corrects customs by laughing at them” pointing to the possibility of humour changing societal mores, and King Camp Gillette, the millionaire, having a never-realized money-less socialist utopia. The works reflect on these contradictions and the failed calls for social change in Gillette’s utopia. |