‘Can you trust your memory?’
Zachary Merle on epilepsy, recall, and the elusive truth explored in his work.
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Zachary is currently exhibiting in ‘Cardboard House’, a group show @palmer.gallery , on until 18th April
He will also be in the group show ‘Headcanon’ @pipelinecontemporary from the 16th April
“The moment it leaves my studio, I’m done.”
Abigail McGinley and Zachary Merle on letting go of control and translating experience into image.
Abigail welcomes any interpretation, while Zac aims to evoke the overwhelm and disarray of emerging from an epileptic episode.
Today is the penultimate day of ‘All That’s Left Behind’, be sure not to miss it!
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Abigail McGinley’s view on being an artist in London.
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The duo show with @zac.merle is open until 7th March @florencetrust
The Florence Trust
Holy Trinity Church
Cloudesley Square
Islington
N1 0HN
In cooperation with @sohorevue & @pipelinecontemporary
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𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗧𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧
𝗭𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗲𝗿𝗹𝗲 (b. 1997, UK) is a London-based artist whose practice examines how personal memory and identity are shaped, fractured, and rewritten through daily encounters with imagery. Living with epilepsy has produced false and unreliable memories — moments that distort, vanish, or mutate upon recall. His work is not concerned with preserving the past, but with exposing the cracks where identity slips away. Through image-transfer, paint, and sculptural interventions, Merle constructs layered, unstable surfaces that reject fixed narratives in favour of obscurity and erosion.
𝗔𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗠𝗰𝗚𝗶𝗻𝗹𝗲𝘆 (b.1999, UK) is a London-based painter whose practice centres on painting as a space of inquiry — a site where gesture, material, and thought converge. Each work functions as part of an evolving visual language, spanning painting, drawing, and writing. Her work explores the tension between concealment and revelation, often using the body as a framework for sensorial and conceptual reflection. She describes this dynamic as a parasite/host relationship: a metaphor for painting itself, oscillating between control and surrender, solitude and encounter.
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Morgane speaks to artists Abigail McGinley & Zachary Merle over a cup of English Breakfast tea with oat milk surrounded by their duo-exhibition ‘𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘓𝘦𝘧𝘵 𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥’ at The Florence Trust (@florencetrust ) in London, February 2026.
The exhibition runs until Saturday, 7th March 2026. The opening hours are Wednesday to Saturday from 12pm - 6pm.
In this duo exhibition, a shared thread emerges when two distinct visual languages collide. Pictorial foundations become unfastened, gestures leak and pool into one another, repeated images dissolve into feeling, and the flickering shadow of a half-forgotten memory resurfaces. Meaning is neither fixed nor resolved, but allowed to hover — fragile, partial, and in-flux.
Working in their respective practices, Merle and McGinley are united by an abdication of certainty. Their works resist clarity in favour of restlessness, embracing ambiguity as both method and subject. Within this state of disquiet, moments of quietude are found — spaces where disclosure and concealment coexist.
During the interview Abigail & Zachary reference the following:
• Abigail & Zac met during Condo London 2025 (@condo_complex )
• Abigail recently did a residency with Revue Residency (@revuestudios_soho )
• Zachary is signed to Pipeline Contemporary (@pipelinecontemporary ) & Abigail is signed to Soho Revue (@sohorevue )
• Abigail graduated with a BA from Slade School of Fine Art in 2022 (@sladeschool )
• Abigail mentions the book The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, as recent inspiration
Credits:
Created & Presented by Morgane Wagner
Directed by Craig Herd
1st Camera: Craig Herd
2nd Camera: Paulina Haas-Heger
3rd Camera: Dexter Herd
Camera Assistant: Sam Alexandroni
Editor: Mathias Gnoth
Graphics: Amaan Hassen
“High quality, low expectations. The rest is out of my control.” 🙏✨
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KV’s show @pippyhouldsworthgallery is on until 14th March - go see it!
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𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧 𝗦𝗣𝗢𝗧𝗟𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧
𝗞𝗩 𝗗𝘂𝗼𝗻𝗴 (b.1980 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) was born in Vietnam, raised in Canada, and now lives and works in the UK.
KV makes paintings on latex about the Vietnamese diasporic queer experience drawing on personal and ancestral histories. He paints with both brush and body — even hair follicles — sometimes in live performance. Using sponges, chopsticks, or Vietnamese broomsticks, KV works acrylic paint across both sides of the latex, scratching with fingers, toes, steel wool, or a knife. The subtraction of layers is as important as the application.
Pungent liquid latex is poured onto a wooden board or concrete floor, then dried, stretched over door-shaped frames, and painted. Duong reinforces the back with a resin–fibreglass composite, informed by his structural engineering background and early fibreglass–concrete canoe experiments at university. The luminous yellow surface pulls you in; its scent, fleshy texture, and tension hold you close. Latex evokes queer eroticism while recalling the rubber plantations of French colonial Vietnam.
Motifs of doors and portals recur — spaces of access and exclusion — reflecting both LGBTQ+ and postcolonial narratives. Across performance, photography, and painting, KV Duong traces how bodies, materials, and memory intertwine, revealing what endures beneath the surface.
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Morgane speaks to artist KV Duong (@kvduongart ) over a Bloody Mary at his studio, around the corner from the Bank of England, in June 2025.
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During the interview KV references the following:
• KV received his MA from the Royal College of Art in 2024 (@royalcollegeofart & @rca_painting )
• KV’s first solo show ‘Where Wound Becomes Water’ is currently on view at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery (@pippyhouldsworthgallery ) in London. The show runs from 30th January – 14th March 2026
• KV shares his studio with his ‘boyband’: Cayetano Sanz de Santamaria (@cashesart ), Gus Monday (@gusmondaystudio ), Shane Keisuke Berkery (@shaneberkery ) & Julian Lombardi (@lombarditheartist ). They are all amazing artists – go check them out too!
Credits:
Created & Presented by Morgane Wagner
Directed by Antonia Ackermans @ Manda Productions
1st Camera: Antonia Ackermans
2nd Camera: Sam Alexandroni
Editor: Mathias Gnoth
Graphics: Amaan Hassen
Elizabeth’s take on artists & galleries: ‘𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙡𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚’
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“𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙜𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙤𝙢.”
Elizabeth on studio routine, ritual, and working in character.
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‘Room to fail’
Elizabeth Dimitroff on how she prepares for a show.
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