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.’
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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
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Chantal Joffe, Matrushka Dolls, 2025 -
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‘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
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Chantal Joffe, Divers, 2025 -
Chantal Joffe, Bananafish, 2025 -
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Chantal Joffe, Tutu, 2025 -
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Chantal Joffe, Jasna, 2025 -
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Chantal Joffe, Sanibel, 2025 -
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About the artist
Chantal Joffe in her studio
Photography © Toby Glanville -
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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... -
Chantal Joffe talks to Wallpaper* about her upcoming solo exhibition, I Remember
October 17, 2025‘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.’ -
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May 12, 2025On 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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Chantal Joffe: I Remember
14 November 2025 – 17 January 2026 London Gallery IThe exhibition 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... -
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