Jason Evans & Ivan Seal

Sketch is probably the most ambitious venue in London today. Created by Mourad Mazouz of Momo fame, Sketch is eatery, drinkery, scenery... a venue for all the senses with a price-tag to match. If what you put in your mouth is not artful, then there's plenty to feast your eyes upon. The largest room, Gallery, is the artworld equivalent of an IMAX cinema. A Four-wall overhead projection (12 projectors in total) and certainly one of the most expensive sound systems about, and an all white 2001aspaceodyssey decor (make sure you check out the bathrooms -- Schrager meets Alien), it's a fine setting for Jason Evan's and Ivan Seal's Heaven. A collaboration between photographer and sound artist respectively, Heaven simply is a black and white, close head and shoulders crop of 12 models -- Storm no less -- interpreting the stage directions they've been given. Francis Bacon grimaces these aren't, rather the "characters" run through a gamut of facial expressions. It's more an excercise in communicating with the face, and certainly with Seal's subtle soundwork -- a heavily filtered refrain "Oh lord, forgive us our foolish ways" -- it's a gesture towards the ugliness of beauty and the beauty of ugliness. Given the event nature of this place, curation will always be a challenge, but the results should be interesting if not quaffable!

Jason Evans & Ivan Seal