You’re invited: Victor Boullet poster launch

Join Plaster for a poster launch and private viewing of Victor Boullet’s upcoming London exhibition at The Artist Room.

Drinks and Golden Wonder crisps will be served at 20 Great Chapel Street, London W1F 8FW on Thursday 3 October, 6–8.30pm.

Designed by Texas Knuller, the double sided poster incorporates images of two paintings by Boullet that, in the artist’s traditional fashion, examine the mundanity and violence of everyday life, consciously channelling the perennial physical compulsions of humans.

On one side, With Hoisin (2020) features a squawking duck that was made within a vast body of work created in Toxteth, Liverpool between 2016 and 2021. The reverse features a new painting Sunday, Tuesday (2024) made specifically for the forthcoming exhibition ‘Dundee Marmalade’.

Rooted in painting, Victor Boullet’s expansive and obsessive practice extends into drawing, sculpture, photography, publishing and writing. Bridging lived experience and acute social observation, often distilling some form of violent interaction witnessed in the world, Boullet’s paintings are an attempt to surface out of these experiences, barricade against swarms of information that seek to suffocate, and reject a numbness present in our contemporary condition. A self inflicted reclusion has allowed Boullet to commandeer a prolific practice, one which sustains repetition and continual destruction: objects, forms and bodies are painted over and over, destroyed and re-painted. The paintings therefore appear unable to situate themselves, continuing to reincarnate, until some form of truth is caught and held on the canvas.

A limited run of double sided posters will be given out for free on a first come first serve basis.