ICI London supports the exhibition
Show Less by Claire Fontaine
Curated by Daria Khan. At Mimosa House gallery, 47 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8SP, from 10 October to 6 December
Opening 9 October 6-8.30pm
Content guidance: this exhibition includes sexually explicit content and strong language.
Mimosa House is delighted to announce our autumn show will be with Claire Fontaine. This will be the Palermo-based artist duo’s first significant solo show in a publicly-funded space in London.
Coinciding with Frieze London, Show Less includes new and existing works that offer a visual and theoretical exploration into feminism, which has shaped Claire Fontaine’s long-standing practice. Central to the exhibition is a questioning of the criteria through which visibility is regulated in dominant cultural, social and political narratives as described by Italian feminist theorist Carla Lonzi (1931-82), whose books include Let’s Spit on Hegel (1970).
Claire Fontaine is a conceptual and feminist collective artist founded by Fulvia Carnevale and James Thornhill in Paris in 2004. Their practice aims to activate the forms and forces of visual culture by emphasising their political content. Working across video, sculpture, painting, and writing, Claire Fontaine explores themes of resistance, identity, and power. The 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 took its title, Foreigners Everywhere, from Claire Fontaine’s iconic neon series; their work was included in both the main exhibition and the Holy See Pavilion. Recent solo exhibitions include: Kiran Nadar Museum of the Arts and Aga Khan Foundation, New Delhi, 2025; Museo Riso, Palermo, 2024 and Fondation Hermès, Seoul, 2024.
Image credit: Untitled (L.G.B.T.Q.), 2017, Postcard and pencil. Photo by Studio Claire Fontaine Copyright Claire Fontaine Courtesy of Claire Fontaine, Palermo and Mennour, Pari
This project is supported by the Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity of the Italian Ministry of Culture under the Italian Council program (14th edition, 2025), with the aim of promoting Italian contemporary art internationally. In Partnership with The WoW Foundation Rome ETS.
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