Spillâge

Camille Bernard, Ingrid Berthon-Moine, William Darrell, Cristiano Di Martino, Sophie Goodchild, Rafaella Lazarou, Sophie Lloyd, Louise Oates, Candida Powell-Williams, Leon Scott-Engel and Lian Zhang

Curated by HAZE

Exhibition: 4 April to 26 April 2025

Spill· âge ‘spi-laaj’ (n)
1 - suggests the ‘boiling over’ of a contain-ee from a contain-er
2 - embodiment of the joy in the mistake and loss of control

Standpoint was pleased to present Spillâge, a group exhibition curated by HAZE.

Spillâge was created as a sniglet - a word made up to describe something for which no dictionary word exists. Bringing together eleven artists, this exhibition looked at the fluidity of language and interruptions from the familiar. It filled in the gaps for alternative expression, embracing the spontaneous and unknown.

The exhibition embodied the notions surrounding happy accidents and freedom of play, the loss of control and unconscious reactions. Within the exhibition, artists were encouraged to explore playful elements of their practice and step back from the preciousness of expectation. The place became a playground for experimentation. This show celebrated the artists’ ability to harvest their boiling over of intuitive reactions, exaggerating and pushing their mistakes and unconscious decisions into their own language, creating works which radiate other-worldliness.

Using the accent that brings together a duality of languages in a subtle jovial form, the word Spillâge bridges together different territories and celebrates combined communication through different worlds in a fluid way.

HAZE is a curatorial project created by artists Camilla Bliss and Solanne Bernard. It came to fruition over a bowl of jellyfish noodles in 2021 and their shows have organically grown since as playful and curious, encouraging experimentation and freedom for the artists to have fun.

The curators often use sniglets when formalising an exhibition. These expressive words are catalysts in describing a specific atmosphere for the desired overriding feeling of each show. A common term used for HAZE’s curation choice is creep-intrigue - this is when a work immediately has something about it which absolutely captivates and emanates a sense of strange but welcomed emotion. Creep-intrigue is when the top end of the barometer screams red.

A new text by writer Lucy Cunningham accompanied the exhibition.

Image credit: Poster by Lara Vallance

Previous HAZE curated exhibitions include ‘Fertile Laziness’ (2021) at Platform Southwark, ‘Peach fuzz’ (2021) at The Factory Project in collaboration with Thorp Stavri alongside ‘2 FOR 1’ (2023) and ‘Destructive Mollusc’, Staffordshire Street Studios (2022)