Steve Turner is pleased to present A Circle Does Not Have An End, a solo exhibition by Budapest-based Luca Sára Rózsa which features recent paintings and a ceramic relief with compositions inspired by Christian iconography that depict enigmatic figures that are bathing, embracing, nurturing or resting. According to the artist, the people are living their lives in silent resignation, and they represent the eternal life cycle. The ceramic relief and one of the paintings depict a mother breastfeeding her baby alluding to the inevitable passage of life from one generation to the next. The paintings are also very much about painting itself as Rózsa has developed a briskly intuitive painterly skill where lush brush strokes intersect and overlap in quick succession in a palette of flesh tones, purples, greens and blues. Painting does for Rózsa what religion might do for others. It enables her to find purpose for her impermanent life. Combined with her narrative and style, this understanding reinforces that a circle indeed does not have an end. Born in Budapest in 1990, Luca Sára Rózsa grew up between Brazil and Hungary. She returned to Europe to study at Eszterházy Károly College, Eger, Hungary (2009-2012); Universitate di Arta si Design, Cluj Napoca, Romania (2011); Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Budapest (2012-2017) and Jan Matejko University of Fine Arts, Krakow (2015). She had a solo exhibition at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2022) and has had eleven solo exhibitions in Hungary since 2011, most recently at Viltin Gallery, Budapest (2021). ____ Steve Turner is pleased to present Rapture, a solo exhibition by London-based Shadi Al-Atallah which features recent paintings that depict enigmatic figures within domestic spaces which have everyday objects or sterile environments which contain medical and electrical equipment. The figures are in a state of ambiguity, their forms entwined and indistinguishable. They appear to be at the edge of a quarrel or an affectionate embrace, captured in a moment of heightened emotional intensity. Al-Atallah’s compositions are inspired by Mesopotamian and Greek depictions of wrestling and they represent the complex terrain where desire and fear collide. According to Al-Atallah, Rapture addresses both the everyday fear of end-of-world self-destruction and a yearning for tenderness and vulnerability that transcends the physical. Shadi Al-Atallah (born 1994, Saudi Arabia) earned a BA at the University of the Arts, London (2018) before earning an MA at the Royal College of Art, London (2021). They have had solo exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2022); Guts Gallery, London (2021 & 2023); Hammond Projects, London (2020) and Cob Gallery, London (2018). Their work was also included in two museum exhibitions in 2023, one at Goldsmiths CCA, London and one at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York. ____ Steve Turner is pleased to present The Only Daughter, a solo exhibition by London-based Elsa Rouy which features recent paintings that relate to the artist’s emotional experiences. She depicts figures that lack clear physical boundaries–different bodies melt into one another and bodily fluids drip and mingle together combining and separating the figures. Rouy is inspired by gothic literature and its themes of terror and romance. The women in her paintings are corpse-like, with cuts and ghostly or intense facial expressions. Rouy describes her works as a “visual portrayal of abstruse emotions where bodies are in a constant state of becoming, never static and always in a state of flux.” Her figures are grotesque, tender and vulnerable. Bodies with supple caressing hands engaged in transfigured sex acts are fused together as their weeping and desperate eyes stare blankly at the viewer. They convey suffering and pleasure, contortion and calm, life and death. They also convey an unknowable mystery that leaves room for viewers to use their own experiences to interpret the conflict within each work. Elsa Rouy (born 2000, Sittingbourne, England) earned a BA at Camberwell College of the Arts, London (2021) and has had solo and two-person exhibitions at Guts Gallery, London (2020, 2021 & 2022) and Eigen + Art Lab, Berlin (2023). The Only Daughter is Rouy’s debut solo exhibition in the United States and Steve Turner will also present her work at Untitled, Miami Beach in December 2023.