Liza Lou 'FAQ' and Not Vital 'Listening + Looking' exhibitions at Thaddaeus Ropac in London

BGUK_3544105 - Two exhibitions open today at Thaddeaus Ropac that run until 23rd May 2026. Liza Lou 'FAQ' FAQ presents a new body of work in which the artist combines glass beads and oil paint on canvas, layering two distinct temporalities on a single surface to examine the heroics of the painted gesture and mid-century abstraction. Works photographed: - 'Stanza' ( 2025 ) - 'Aliteration' ( 2025 ) - 'Enjambent' ( 2026 ) - 'Analepsis' ( 2025 ) - 'Ecphonesis' ( 2026 ) - 'Parataxis' ( 2025) - 'Onomatopoeia' ( 2026 ) Not Vital 'Listening + Looking' The exhibition spans almost two decades of the Swiss artist's practice, bringing together a selection of sculptures from 2009 to the present and his latest series of painted self-portraits, exemplifying Vital's multidisciplinary approach and his alternative - at times humorous and illogical - strategies of representation. Artworks photographed: - 'Reaching' (2026) - 'TBC' ( 2025 ) - 'FUCK OFF' ( 2021 ) - 4 Self-portraits' ( 2025 - 2026 ) - ear as part of 'Self-portrait as a Table' ( 2025 ) - 'Velazquez' ( 2020 ) - 'Velazquez' ( 2012 )