Angus White: We walked beside the river and spoke about our future

Where Cities Go to Die and Where Animals Grow in the Sky, Oil on canvas, 195cm x 185cm, 2025.

We walked beside the river and spoke about our future

Angus White

30 Sept - 11 Oct

This body of work lingers in the melancholia of a summer scattered between places, much of it spent in an emptied Paris where entire quarters seemed abandoned, where people passed like fleeting apparitions. The paintings carry the rhythm of days without aim—days when the greatest decision is what to eat next, when one can jet off at the drop of a hat or call an old friend just to sleep in their spare room.

They speak to the strange tenderness of these lulls: watching the sunset from a balcony, feeling the dread of returning to work softened only by the thought that work will buy you the next holiday. These moments stretch time until it blurs, and it’s in this blur that memory, desire, and reverie take shape on the canvas.

Figures drift through the paintings like constellations, blurred and dissolving into abstraction. They hover between the intimacy of dreams and the collective pull of modern visibility—not the promise of celebrity, but the quieter, stranger condition of living in a world where each image, each fleeting gesture, is instantly cast into the endless archive of screens.

Like walking beside the river, these works hold the tension of pause and momentum, of solitude and shared presence. They invite us to dwell in the intervals where life loosens its grip, when boredom opens into possibility, and the future hovers just out of reach.