RIPE LIVE:

Papaya Salad / Lucas Console-Verma

Friday 27th June, 6pm – 10pm

Join us for the launch of two new exhibitions, Papaya Salad and Traces Between Worlds by Lucas Console-Verma

🔶 Explore our most recent exhibition at the Alfred Arcade, Papaya Salad, a short-term residency project that aims to encourage artistic and professional development through a series of skill sharing workshops. For this third Papaya project, the Ripe Papayas, who exhibited at the Alfred Arcade last summer, have reconnected and developed both individual and collective outcomes, culminating in a group exhibition.

🎨 Preview a new exhibition at the Hidden Wardrobe, Traces Between Worlds by Lucas Console-Verma. Lucas is a painter who is interested in appropriation and artificial intelligence (AI) technology. His process involves selecting old masters’ paintings and transforming them using online generative AI systems, distorting the original image as a way of studying composition, colours and subjects. He then uses these images to create paintings that open up a dialogue between the traditional and the contemporary.

🎵 Music will be provided at the Alfred Arms by Southampton-based music collective, Address.

🥂 Drinks will be served at the Alfred Arcade and the Alfred Arms from 6pm – 10pm.