Untitled is a Pure members exhibition.

Marcel Duchamp famously said that a “title is an invisible colour”—and it’s a colour that, for better or worse, wiggles its way into even the most resistant artworks.”

Although it is now considered the norm, the convention of giving titles to artworks has long been challenged by artists. 

Pablo Picasso, for example, insisted he had nothing to do with the titles of his works. He preferred the work to speak for itself. “What good does it do, after all, to impart explanations?” he once said. “A painter has only one language.” And for Picasso and many other artists, that language is visual.

All the artwork in this exhibition has a title, however, the exhibition itself, in true Picasso style, is left completely open to the interpretation of the viewer.... 

Cover image courtesy of Leila Godden - Secret Garden