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Confessions
Electra Simon
16 Feb - 26 March 2026
Private View: 16th March 6-9pm
Open Wednesday - Saturday 12-5pm and by Appointment
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Confessions, is an installation and participatory project by London-based artist Electra Simon.
Expanding Electra’s exploration of what happens when something is witnessed and shared, Confessions transforms Harlesden High Street Gallery into a site for private conversation held within a public setting. Visitors are invited to take part in individual sessions lasting around one hour. While framed as a ‘confession’, the invitation is open-ended: participants may share a memory, a story, a feeling, speak in any language, or sit in silence. The process is intuitive, centred on listening rather than instruction or repentance.
During each session, Electra works on the other side of the structure, the side that can be seen from the street, producing monotype prints. These works are not literal illustrations but symbolic responses, translating feelings into tangible visual form. At the end of the session, participants are shown the print created and, if they accept, photographed holding their print.
These images are gradually installed in the gallery over the course of the exhibition, forming a cumulative work that reflects the mood of a community and a specific moment in time.
As the exhibition evolves throughout its duration, there will be a public opening towards the end on Monday 16 March, allowing what is shared privately to echo back into the public space.
Image courtesy of Michèle Anoun