
The Smell of Calpol on a Warm Summer's Night
- Publisher
- Mörel Books
- Year
- 2024
- ISBN
- 978-1-917282-01-7
- Specifications
- Softcover landscape
360 x 280 mm
24 pages, 8 images
300 copies
Text by Nathalie Olah
Loose Print enclosed
First exhibited at Cob Gallery, London (2021)
The publication blurs the line between reality and fiction. Framed like paintings, each image is a cinematic tableau of Suburbia, with a warm glow of neon light reminiscent of hazy evenings spent in front of TV screens. The artist presents a glance into others' living rooms and domestic environments, offering an eerie portrayal of twilight. Bathing in the blue light of advertising's stylised plenitude, the Madonna and child are re-imagined in a suburban living room, sunk into a plush leather armchair as the sticky panacea of strawberry-pink paracetamol lingers in the air. The publication features an exclusive text by writer Nathalie Olah, an author with an interest in class and propaganda whose books include Bad Taste (Dialogue Books 2023), Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas (Tate Publishing 2023) and Steal As Much As You Can (Repeater Books 2019).