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Join us this Saturday 15 February, for the opening of I Would Rather Be Horizontal, a group exhibition featuring 23 London-based artists. The show includes sculptures, paintings, photographs, and multimedia installations. It opens at The Bomb Factory Art Foundation in Marylebone from 5–9 PM and runs until 22 February.
The title is drawn from Sylvia Plath’s poetry collection Crossing the Water, a book that navigates themes of death, dissatisfaction, loss, grief, and the power of memory. Plath’s imagery suggests a passage across water—symbolising the flow of time and the inevitability of mortality. The phrase “I Would Rather Be Horizontal” evokes a rejection of the vertical, the monumental, or the dominant, instead, embracing states of vulnerability, stillness, and dissolution.
The exhibition explores the tension between resilience and fragility, questioning how an artwork’s presence endures while its context, environment, and meaning remain in flux. Especially by bringing together works in this space, where traces of construction remain and interact with shifting materiality, I Would Rather Be Horizontal invites viewers to reconsider stability, memory, and the passage of time.
Artists:
Mike Ballard @mikeballards
Dien Berziga @berziga_dien_
Fan Bangyu @fan_bangyu
Mina Fairchild @min4mon
Natalya Marconini Falconer @natalyamfalc
Jade Gaskin @jade.annalise
Mia Graham @miaelizabethgraham
Junnan Huang @jenana052
Xingxin Hu @xingxinhu_u
Jacob Clayton @j.s.clayton
James Lang @jimbo__paints
René Lazovy @renelazovy
Lana Locke @lanalocke
Celeste Viv Ly @virtio.djvu
Vincenzo Muratore @vincenzomuratoreartist
Aisha Olamide Seriki @occupiedbythelense
Sam Stewart @sam953_
Bumble Stubbs @bumblestubbs
Ana Teles @ana_ct_teles
Hosa Wang @hosa.ww
Wenxuan Wang @vinx_wwx
Rie Zijing Ye @rieproduce
Guanhai Zhu @guanhai.zhu
Curated by:
Catherine Li @cath_erine_li
Siobhán Lynch @siobhanbonnie.art
Alice Qianhui Sun @alice.sun.0822
Ana Teles @ana_ct_teles
LOCATION: 206 Marylebone Road, NW1 6JQ
PRIVATE VIEW: Saturday 15th February, 5-9pm
DATES: 15th - 22nd February, 12-6pm