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Salon/ Style On View at Peach Pit Gallery

Aprii 18 - June 15th

Opening reception April 16th 6-9pm

Peach Pit Gallery
96 Pilling Street

The word ‘Salon’ has multiple meanings: a beauty salon, a parlor room, a group exhibition. During the Enlightenment, Salons were social gatherings where artists, writers, and thinkers would gather to discuss new ideas. In the 19th-century, the Paris Salon assembled top artists into a single exhibition, while the Salon de Refuses (show of rejects) platformed the rebellious painters who would eventually leave a lasting historical legacy. Beauty salons are spaces for intimate, somatic exchange, existing on the cusp between the private and the public. How do all of these definitions intersect? As Peach Pit Gallery welcomes its first resident hairdresser, Maggie Gaster, it opens an opportunity to reimagine how a gallery can function. Salon/Style brings public intimacy into the gallery, positioning a live, working hairdresser alongside a group exhibition, hung salon-style. In times of social upheaval, communal solidarity becomes more crucial than ever, and social gatherings can be revolutionary acts. Salon/Style turns the gallery into a salon in every sense of the word.