27th February - 2nd March 2025

Pickled!

Private View : Thursday 27th February 2025, 6-8pm

Thin Red Lion's latest exhibition Pickled! explores the elusive nature of time—its overlooked moments, contradictions, and malleability—through an immersive, paradoxical space inspired by the leap day.

Pickled!

Time surrounds us, shaping every moment, yet remains elusive and hard to pin down. Pickled! explores this intangible element of our lives. It focuses on the moments we overlook, the pauses between actions, the gaps between events, and the hours that slip by unnoticed. These fragments, if seen as currency, would be akin to loose change forgotten behind a sofa.

The exhibition draws inspiration from the leap day—a once-every-four-years anomaly that reflects time’s imperfect structure. This extra day, both critical and inconsequential, challenges the way we think about time. Like a ghost on the calendar, it exists outside the usual flow, a reminder of how malleable time can be.

Pickled! blends the feel of a nuclear bunker with the intimacy of a time capsule, creating a space that feels both suspended and dynamic. Visitors encounter environments that echo paradoxes, such as Schrödinger’s thought experiment, where conflicting truths coexist. Clocks in the space tick at varying speeds, dreams preserve fleeting moments, and distinctions between past, present, and future blur. Time becomes less of a straight line and more of an intricate web—a fluid experience shaped by perception. How does it feel to inhabit a moment that is both fleeting and significant? What can we learn from the way time stretches or compresses in our memories and dreams?

Pickled! offers a setting where time behaves in unconventional ways, urging us to rethink our relationship with it. It is not about reclaiming time that has passed but celebrating its peculiarities and contradictions. The show invites us to notice the unnoticed and find value in the transient.

Events

Soften!

March 1st / 2-4pm

On March 1st, 2025, visual artist Marine One will host a figurine-making workshop at APT Gallery. Inspired by the themes of "Pickled!" the session invites participants to explore the concept of temporal ambiguity through textiles. Using buttons, ribbons, and fabric imagery, attendees will create figurines using free-style sewing techniques, moving away from clean-cut patterns typical of traditional sewing.

Designed to foster introspection and creativity, the workshop will immerse participants in the interplay between the familiar and the unknown, echoing the exhibition’s exploration of liminal spaces. This seated workshop is open to individuals aged 13 and above, with all materials provided. Embrace the opportunity to let your creativity flow while reflecting on personal interpretations of time and transition. 

Find out more and get your free ticket here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/soften-plush-making-workshop-tickets-1208006673479?aff=oddtdtcreator

FERMENT

March 2nd / 2-3:30pm

Join Ananya Jain in making Kanji, a fermented North Indian probiotic drink, and explore shifting cultural identity through food-based rituals. Kanji is a savory beverage made from black carrots, beetroot, mustard seeds, salt, and warm water. Traditionally prepared at the end of winter to welcome spring, it supports gut health and digestion when consumed in small amounts daily. The fermentation process is simple and accessible, with the drink ready in 4–8 days.

Participants will be invited to collectively celebrate and share indigenous knowledge and consider acts of everyday care and patience. There are so many rituals, and cultural practices that are passed down across generations, however they are often not carried forward by us in our everyday lives, particularly at a young age. Together we will reconsider some of those practices and reintegrate them into the everyday. We will also discuss the practice of fermentation, its long history, and the patience and care it requires.