“It’s 2020 For F*ck Sake” Guts Gallery and Soft Punk / London

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Corbin Shaw, I Could Of Been A Contende, 2020. Cotton Thread. 91.5 x 152.4 cm. Photography by Diego Hernández. Courtesy of Guts Gallery, London and Soft Punk Magazine, London / New York.

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Ruby Dickson, ​By What Means Redmond Barry Acquired The Style and Title of Barry Lyndon, 2020. Oil on Canvas. 150 x 75 cm. Courtesy of Guts Gallery, London and Soft Punk Magazine, London / New York.

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Sophie Vallance, Peeka-fuckin-boo, 2020. 127 x 127 cm. Photography by Sophie Vallance. Courtesy of the artis; Guts Gallery, London; and Soft Punk Magazine, London / New York.

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Andrew Hart, Dance the Revolution, 2020. Oil, charcoal on canvas. 80 x 100 cm. Courtesy of Guts Gallery, London and Soft Punk Magazine, London / New York.

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Elsa Rouy, Tugging on each others ego straps, 2020. Acrylic, oil, ink, and soft pastel on canvas. 92 x 127 cm. Courtesy of Guts Gallery, London and Soft Punk Magazine, London / New York.

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Lucia Ferrari, Two White Horses, 2020. Oil, acrylic, chalk on paper. 59 x 15 cm. Courtesy of Guts Gallery, London and Soft Punk Magazine, London / New York.

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Salomé Wu, Oaths, 2020. Oil on canvas. 102 x 67 cm. Photography by Salomé Wu. Courtesy of the artis; Guts Gallery, London; and Soft Punk Magazine, London / New York.

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Olivia Sterling, Clings Like Treacle, 2020. Acrylic on canvas. 59.4 x 41 cm. Courtesy of Guts Gallery, London and Soft Punk Magazine, London / New York.

Guts Gallery and Soft Punk Magazine are proud to collaboratively present “It’s 2020 For F*ck Sake”, a thirteen artist, back-to-back solo exhibition marathon, running from 24 September 2020 to 21 December 2020, first in a railway arch under Haggerston Station, and now with a return to lockdown, online through VR content.

Born from a desire to refuse ​the conditions of silence, paralysis, and erasure brought on by our current social and political climate, this exhibition series has been conceived as a means of exhibiting some of the most promising practitioners of the new generation, creating space for display, experimentation, and artistic ownership in an otherwise compromising market.

Actively aware of the scarcity of shows for underrepresented emerging artists, each artist exhibiting has been given full license over the space. However, this is an exhibition marathon founded in community — while each artist has a solo show, the broader ethos is one of collaboration, accessibility, progress, and collective shouldering of one another.

Once more returning to “lockdown” as of Thursday, 5th November, the remainder of the solo exhibitions will be launched and viewed through virtual reality, a viewing room via Guts’ upcoming Artlogic website and of course, Instagram. All of these platforms will be made live at the same time each week on the date the private views were due to take place. We would like viewers to engage with the works as you would in our physical space, curating an environment specific to each show and artist.

At a moment when the arts sector is on the brink of a major crisis, we are committed to continue putting our community first, paying fair wages, and providing sustained support for artists in any way we can.