Moments
Exhibition Open Call
Deadline: 31st July 2025,11:59 pm BST
Exhibition Dates: August 28th - 31st, 2025
Location: Purist Gallery (114 King's Cross Rd, London WC1X 9DS)
Curator: Doris Duanmu
Producer: Erika Song
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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.
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*All mediums welcome*
*No application fee*
*No participation fee*
Terms & Conditions
Eligibility
• All mediums will be considered and there are no size restrictions.
• All artists are welcomed to submit their work for the exhibition (If you are not based in the UK, please be aware that you will be responsible for the delivery and return of your artwork).
Specification and Requirements
• Artists may submit up to 5 distinct pieces of work for consideration.
• Files should be uploaded directly to the form.
• Artists should be responsible for providing all equipment needed for displaying the work.
• Artists should be responsible for delivering their artworks to exhibition venue, along with any insurance.
• Artworks submitted for exhibition must be fully prepared for display. In case framing is necessary, artists are required to undertake this task prior to the installation of the exhibition.
• Organisers will retain a 30% commission total on all sales made during the exhibition. Please take it into account when pricing your artworks.
• Artworks are not required to be for sale, if your submitted pieces are not to be sold please specify that it’s “NFS” in the submission form.
Important Dates
• The deadline for submitting your open call application is 31st July 2025,11:59 pm BST.
• The exhibition dates are from 28th August to 31st August, 2025.
• The selected artists will be contacted via email. We aim to select artists within two weeks of the submission deadline. If you do not receive an email from us, it means your work has not been selected.
Liability and Photography
• Organisers cannot be responsible for loss or damage to artworks, and artists are encouraged to carry their own insurance.
• Organisers reserve the right to photograph artwork during the event and use images of the artwork for publicity and educational purposes in perpetuity. The artist agrees to the above mentioned terms by submitting artwork via this open call.
Submission
• The submission is free of charge.
• Artists do not pay extra fees to participate in the festival.
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Submission link:
https://forms.gle/fFGbJARCYqSmW9kj8
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Thank you for considering submitting your work for this open call. If you have any questions, having any trouble with the submission form or simply want to talk about the project, please do not hesitate to email your enquiry at esprojects.art@gmail.com.
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© Erika Song & Doris Duanmu
