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Chantal Joffe: I Remember

London Gallery I, 14 November 2025–17 January 2026

Chantal Joffe: I Remember

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This evocative new series of large-scale paintings explores themes of memory, nostalgia and personal history to offer a reflective and deeply personal journey into the artist’s childhood and family life.

I Remember takes its title from Joe Brainard’s iconic memoir and is inspired by the late American writer’s poetic prompts that evoke the atmosphere and time of memories. Joffe’s paintings attempt to capture the fleeting yet enduring nature of memory and how it shapes our sense of self.

The exhibition is accompanied by a new text, entitled Time Transmission, by Olivia Laing.

‘Joe Brainard’s book always makes me list for myself the things I remember and the atmosphere and time that they conjure. These paintings are a sort of memoir of my childhood and of my family, an attempt at a kind of time travel. When I am making them, it’s almost as if I am existing in that past.’  

– Chantal Joffe
  • Olivia Laing – Time Transmission
  • Press release
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    Chantal Joffe, Backyard, 2025
  •  ‘…we move from the known to the unknown, from a past we remember but cannot influence to a future we can influence but do not know.’

    – Olivia Laing

  • Chantal Joffe, Matrushka Dolls, 2025
    Chantal Joffe, Matrushka Dolls, 2025
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    ‘The paintings in I Remember depict scenes from Joffe’s own childhood, mostly in America in the 1970s. Similar versions could no doubt be found in any family album of the period. Beach holidays, Halloween outfits (though few mothers could have achieved the creative heights of the three matryoshka dolls)…’

    – Olivia Laing

  • ‘Something has definitively changed in the handling of paint. Joffe has allowed herself a new indefiniteness, a surrendering of precision and edge in favour of softness, saturation, blur.’

    – Olivia Laing

  • Chantal Joffe, Divers, 2025
    Chantal Joffe, Divers, 2025
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    ‘They’re skinny, pale, knobbly-kneed. You can almost hear their teeth chattering with cold.’

    – Olivia Laing

  • Chantal Joffe, Bananafish, 2025
    Chantal Joffe, Bananafish, 2025
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    ‘The mother, red-headed, barely has a face. She is, as we say, abstracted, bent on her own concerns…’

    – Olivia Laing

  • Chantal Joffe, Tutu, 2025
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    Chantal Joffe, Jasna, 2025
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    ‘The fierce vertical stripes on her polo neck and flares emphasise her determined individuation… As a portrait of maternal ambivalence, it’s hard to beat.’

    – Olivia Laing

     

  • Time Transmission

    By Olivia Laing
     
    → Read here
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    ‘These are works of maturity. What they convey is fluidity, uncertainty, curiosity. I’m not so sure, they seem to say. Is this how it was?’

    – Olivia Laing

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  • About the artist

    Born in 1969, Chantal Joffe lives and works in London. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art...

    Chantal Joffe in her studio
    Photography © Toby Glanville

    Born in 1969, Chantal Joffe lives and works in London. She holds an MA from the Royal College of Art and was awarded the Royal Academy Wollaston Prize in 2006.

    Joffe has exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including The Exchange, Penzance, UK (2025); The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK (2023–24); The Modern, Fort Worth, Texas, USA (2022); Koohouse Museum, Yangpyong, Korea (2022); The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2021); The Foundling Museum, London, UK (2020); Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2020); Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK (2019); Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2018); The Lowry, Salford, UK (2018); Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2018, 2017); National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavík (2016); National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (2015); Jewish Museum, New York, USA (2015); Jerwood Gallery, Hastings, UK (2015); Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2014–15); Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2013–14); MODEM, Hungary (2012); Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK (2011); Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA (2009); MIMA Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK (2007); Galleri KB, Oslo, Norway (2005) and Bloomberg Space, London, UK (2004). 

    Her work is in numerous institutional and private collections, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA; Detroit Institute of Arts, USA; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK; National Portrait Gallery, London, UK; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA among others.

    Joffe has created a major public work for the Elizabeth line in London titled A Sunday Afternoon in Whitechapel, on view at Whitechapel Elizabeth line station.

  • New MACK publication

    Painting Writing Texting chronicles the friendship between painter Chantal Joffe and writer Olivia Laing, which began in 2016 when Joffe...

    Painting Writing Texting chronicles the friendship between painter Chantal Joffe and writer Olivia Laing, which began in 2016 when Joffe approached Laing to ask if they would sit for a portrait. From this unexpected encounter, the two embarked on an expansive and ranging collaboration, fuelled by high-speed conversations about art, books, and their shared attempts to understand the world. 

    ‘It feels like we both use portraiture to get at something deeper’, Laing writes in one of the ten essays collected here. Combining these texts with a dazzling sequence of paintings by Joffe, Painting Writing Texting explores the strange and risky process by which everyday life is converted into art. More than a record of two artists’ lives, it is an account of friendship itself, and the magical cross-pollination that can occur between words and images. 

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      Chantal Joffe and Olivia Laing’s new book Painting Writing Texting and Joffe’s exhibition I Remember are featured in T Magazine

      October 30, 2025
      'In the spring of 2016, the painter Chantal Joffe read Olivia Laing’s just-published book “The Lonely City” and sent the writer a note of praise, along with an invitation for...
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      ‘When I’m painting, I have the sense that [time] is a kind of present tense, as if our ghosts are all still here, everywhere all at once.’
    • Chantal Joffe: The Prince at The Exchange, Penzance
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      May 12, 2025
      On view 15 May–15 November 2025, the exhibition includes two major new bodies of work. The first series of four large-scale paintings shows Joffe’s partner, Richard. The second series depicts...
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