The Conditions of Our Love

July 8th – July 31st, 2022

Curated by Jason Clay Lewis

The Royal @ RSOAA is pleased to present The Conditions of Our Love, a group exhibition curated by Jason Clay Lewis featuring artists Jenny Williams and Clementine Williams.

How does memory become stored in the body? These works, painted by a mother and daughter, are meditations on this question, and the themes explored in our favorite quote by Virginia Woolf:

“It seems that a profound, impartial, and absolutely just opinion of our fellow-creatures is utterly unknown. Either we are men, or we are women. Either we are cold, or we are sentimental. Either we are young, or growing old. In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows. And why, if this — and much more than this is true — why are we yet surprised in the window corner by a sudden vision that the young man in the chair is of all things in the world the most real, the most solid, the best known to us–why indeed? For the moment after we know nothing about him.

Such is the manner of our seeing. Such the conditions of our love.”

Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room