Preslav Kostov

Across the exhibition, artists engage the page as a space where images are formed under these conditions. Some works press towards clarity, while others dissolve or resist it. In each case, the image is not fully secured, but held in place with varying degrees of control. What emerges is a shared sensitivity not only to how images are made, but to the conditions under which they can be sustained. Presence is negotiated rather than assumed, and at times deliberately unsettled.

Minton's drawing establishes a language of precision and emotional charge that continues to resonate. Around it, contemporary works extend this condition in different ways, approaching paper as a medium that demands both discipline and risk. The page becomes a site where something must be decided, but never entirely resolved.

Traces presents works on paper as complete and self-sufficient, foregrounding the medium's capacity for intensity, control, and quiet, persistent force.

Preslav Kostov, Luke Silva, Selwyn Steyn and Rafal Zajko meet to express their own identities amidst the anonymity of city living, through their art and its subjects. The central theme addresses the influence of the urban environment on self-expression, personal connections and intimate moments that occur within this urban matrix.

Manifest offers the spectator instances of vulnerability, solitude, and human connection, as the artists explore tension between the frenetic pace of city life and the human desire for escapism within. These works are moments of contemplation in the face of sensory overload, and capture the quest for solace amongst the chaos of a city.

The connections between this group of artists and their respective practices cut to the very heart of our social existence. Selwyn Steyn focuses heavily on urban spaces which witness personal growth through cycles of development, decay, and renewal, and Rafal Zajko explores society’s industrial past in his multimedia works. In contrast, Preslav Kostov challenges human identity with self-interrogation, and Luke Silva seeks to intimately portray the fragile human state