Celebrating our gallery’s first year anniversary, Tiderip presents In the Soft Machinery of the Mind, an exhibition that traces the delicate borderlands between dreaming, imagining, and remembering. The show brings together works that operate in the quiet registers of interior life, where images soften, narratives loosen, and emotion lingers in the space between recognition and uncertainty.
At the centre of this presentation is a practice concerned with vision and the gradual gaining of sight, both literal and metaphorical. Each work unfolds as the story of a character: their internal shifts, the transformation of the body, and a slow rebirth into a new quality of being. These figures do not announce themselves; they emerge as if from within the surface, as though the act of looking were also an act of becoming.
Imagination functions here as a form of emotional weather, a way of projecting oneself into landscapes of longing and unresolved memory. Across softly layered imagery and intimate gestures, the works suggest an inner world that is neither fixed nor fully knowable. The character’s transformation mirrors the viewer’s own process of learning to see, to recognise what was previously hidden, and to inhabit uncertainty with tenderness.
In the Soft Machinery of the Mind aligns with Tiderip’s ongoing inquiry into psychological space and diasporic interiority. By creating a muted, immersive environment within the Battersea gallery, the exhibition invites a slowing down and an attunement to the textures of thought, vision, and quiet metamorphosis.
In a moment defined by acceleration and noise, this exhibition proposes a gentle counter movement, a turning inward. Here, seeing becomes an ethical and emotional act, and the soft edges of the mind open into a shared space of reflection.
Featuring Artists
Iyo DONG (b. 1998, Hangzhou, China) is a Paris-based painter currently completing a Master of Arts Plastiques at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Trained in traditional Chinese painting at the China Academy of Art, she approaches this formation not as a heritage to be preserved but as an operative system to be repositioned. Working primarily with silk, ink, and watercolour, her practice establishes a dynamic tension between structure and accident, control and irreversibility, foregrounding the material conditions of image-making. Through processes of absorption, diffusion, and the behaviour of pigment on silk, DONG examines how pictorial images come into being and how vision itself is mediated through material, gesture, and time.
Leetzuy (b.1994, Taiwan) is an artist based in London. Her practice orbits around words written on 3M Post-it notes, which she develops alongside objects—both ready-made and artist-made, as well as stories, eventually presenting them in the form of paintings. She graduated with First Class Honours in Fine Art and History of Art from Goldsmiths in 2025 and is currently pursuing postgraduate study at the Royal Academy of Arts.
Katerina Lukina （b. 1995) is a Russian-born, London-based artist who works with themes of vision, transformation, and rites of passage. Her practice centres on characters undergoing internal change, bodily transformation, and symbolic rebirth into new states of being. Working across digital graphics, UV printing, laser-cut plywood reliefs, and hand-crafted sculptural elements, Lukina constructs layered, multi-dimensional images that materialise psychological and perceptual shifts. She studied Graphic Arts at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts (2013–2019), and has recently exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition Let His Eyes Open Like a Frog at THE SHOPHOUSE Gallery, Hong Kong (2025), a duo exhibition at Arusha Gallery, London (2024), and group exhibitions at The Artist Room, London (2024) and Alisa Gallery, Dubai (2024).
Yuma Radne (b.2001, Mongolia) is an artist living and working in London, UK. She was enrolled in a monumental painting course in Shtiglitz Academy in Saint Petersburg before having quit it and moved to Austria, where she received her diploma in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, with an exchange year at the Slade School of Art. Yuma has had several gallery and institutional shows at The National Museum of Republic of Buryatia (2018), Bloom Galerie, France (2023), Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2023), and Incubator Gallery, London (2025). Recent group shows include her work being held at Frieze Cork Street, London (2025), Mandy Zhang, London (2026), and Fiumano Close (2023), including several art fair appearances, such as Untitled, Miami (2023), Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen (2023) and Future Fairs, New York (2024).
Nicole W.B (b. 1999, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain) is a London-based painter whose work combines narrative, satire, and movement. Drawing on Soviet literature and animation, her vibrant, exaggerated figures embody contemporary expressions of greed, lust, and wrath, caught in states of perpetual motion. Influenced by her background in animation, she treats painting as a non-static medium, using expressive brushwork to extend the limits of the two-dimensional image. Her recent works shift towards a more conceptual exploration of movement in nature, examining wings, webs, and organic systems at the intersection of science and art. She holds a First-Class BSc in Neuroscience from King’s College London and has recently exhibited across London and the UK.
