a. SQUIRE is thrilled to present PLUTO, the first London exhibition by Düsseldorf-based Trinidadian painter Ryan Huggins. The show takes the form of a frieze comprising 16 vignettes which survey the carnal architectures and queer encounters of Pluto, a gay bathhouse in Essen, Germany. As Stanton Taylor writes of the sauna, 'for all its vastness, there isn’t a single instance of external light. The space itself seems to obliterate the passage of time–a palace of eternal night.'
a. SQUIRE is thrilled to present PLUTO, the first London exhibition by Düsseldorf-based Trinidadian painter Ryan Huggins. The show takes the form of a frieze comprising 16 vignettes which survey the carnal architectures and queer encounters of Pluto, a gay bathhouse in Essen, Germany. As Stanton Taylor writes of the sauna, "for all its vastness, there isn’t a single instance of external light. The space itself seems to obliterate the passage of time–a palace of eternal night."
