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Image World
Hypha Gallery 1
No. 1 Poultry
Bank, London, EC2R 8EN
23rd April – 30th May 2026
Curated by Alexander Harding
Annabelle Agbo Godeau, Corey Bartle-Sanderson, Corsin Billeter, Malcolm Bradley, Lily Bunney,
Rachel Chappell, Jamie John Davies, Morgane Ely, Andrew Grassie, Rachel Lancaster,
Aleksander Mechlinski, Zachary Merle, Alan Michael, Alice Miller, Jonah Pontzer, Paul Robas, Katie
Shannon, Kaja Stumpf, Oona Wilkinson, Ki Yoong
I find myself increasingly distracted by images, by how they mix and accumulate, how on social media
they are pressed against each other in competing tones, arranged side by side by the algorithm. Pets
appear amidst war and catastrophe, collapsing intimacy and spectacle into a single visual stream. On
the way to the install, I saw a moped driver watching TikTok as he sped through the city. The pace of
images quickens every day.
In her 1977 book, On Photography, Susan Sontag describes an ‘image world’ in which we
increasingly experience reality through images rather than direct encounter. Photographs begin to
stand in for lived experience. Instead of being somewhere or witnessing something firsthand, we
consume images of it. Over time, reality itself feels mediated, curated, and at times less immediate
than its photographic version.
This exhibition seeks to recreate that condition. Bringing these artists together, it considers how this
shift shapes the present moment. We live in an image world. Pictures circulate at the speed of
thought, shaping not only what we see but how we understand time, value, and presence.
Alexander Harding
