Fugue by Lydia Goldblatt is, in her own words, ‘a body of work about love and grief, mothering and losing a mother, intimacy and distance’ told through photographs – portraits, still lifes and abstractions – centring on the domestic space and made over the course of four years.

Fugue by Lydia Goldblatt is, in her own words, ‘a body of work about love and grief, mothering and losing a mother, intimacy and distance’ told through photographs – portraits, still lifes and abstractions – centring on the domestic space and made over the course of four years.

‘I wanted to be honest about what I was struggling with, about the feelings of claustrophobia and rage, as much as intimacy and love. These are feelings so often hidden by mothers, so often silenced as unacceptable.’ (Lydia Goldblatt)

The exhibition has been curated by Chris Littlewood.

Lydia Goldblatt (*1978, GB) holds a Master’s from the London College of Communication. Her series Still Here was published in 2013 as an artist monograph by Hatje Cantz. Her second book Fugue was published in spring 2024 by GOST Books. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Felix Nussbaum Museum, Osnabrück; Somerset House, London; the GoEun Museum of Photography, South Korea; and the National Museum, Gdansk. She was awarded the Grand Prix at 2014’s Tokyo International Photography Festival and, in 2020, the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize for her portrait Eden from the series Fugue. She lives and works in London.

Chris Littlewood (*1981, HK) is an artist and curator working with photography, based in Johannesburg, South Africa.