Moments
Purist Gallery, London WC1X 9DS
2025

Moments is a group exhibition that aim to reflect on the fragments that shape us — those flashes in time that linger long after they’ve passed. Joy, rupture, stillness, collapse, clarity. The moments that play on loop in the mind, the ones we try to hold onto — or leave behind — but that stay with us, quietly steering who we become.

This exhibition seeks works that tap into that emotional afterglow. Pieces that evoke the first shock of a feeling, that attempt to preserve something fleeting. In an era of endless scrolls and algorithmic forgetting, Moments asks whether it is still the raw, unfiltered fragment — the emotional core — that makes art feel urgent, and real.

Walter Benjamin described this as Jetztzeit — a “now-time” that cuts across the flow of history with sudden clarity. Moments is imagined as a curatorial space for such ruptures: where the personal can become universal, and where emotion stands outside narrative. We’re looking for works that hold onto these experiences that carry a sense of presence. Of vulnerability. Of resonance.