EXHIBITION: AFTER LIGHT, THE BLOOM
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A Group Exhibition Tuning into the Quiet Ecologies of Negative Spaces. Featuring immersive works by Ben Arpea, Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes, Kelly Richardson and Louis-Paul Caron
BLEUR Gallery, in collaboration with the French digital art platform DANAE and the curatorial initiative BLUESHIFT, announces After Light, The Bloom, a group exhibition running from November 25 to December 13, 2025 at BLEUR’s newly reopened space on Baker Street, London, in collaboration with Westminster Council and The Portman Estate. Featuring four international digital artists, the exhibition explores how ecological life and new imaginaries can emerge from overlooked spaces, including architectural, technological, and emotional ones, where human presence has faded.
Journey to the After - Kelly Richardson (2022)
Taking place in a transformed high-street building that had been vacant for seven years before reopening as a gallery this September, the exhibition grounds its inspiration in the reuse of a long-empty space as a metaphor for renewal and regeneration. Creating an atmosphere for slow returns, subtle rhythms, and speculative growth, the exhibition frames negative space not as void but as latent potential. After Light, The Bloom imagines how digital tools and environmental thinking can together rewild the ways we see and sense our world.
The exhibition includes speculative digital landscapes that tune into post-human tempos and atmospheric states. Artists such as Kelly Richardson (Canada) present cinematic futures shaped by climate change and stilled time. Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes (Costa Rica-Canada) conjures digital botanicals rooted in Central American ecology and folklore. Ben Arpea (France) and Louis-Paul Caron (France) explore the aesthetic and algorithmic dynamics of disappearance, renewal, and ecological entanglement.
La Colline - Louis-Paul Caron
“The building stood still for seven years, collecting light, dust, and silence in one of the busiest corners of London. That stillness became our starting point. The exhibition asks how digital art might give form to what happens when nothing is happening and what quiet ecologies arise when human noise fades.”
-Curator Diane Drubay, founder of BLUESHIFT
“With art as the catalyst and collaboration at the core, transforming this unit has not only been about reclaiming physical presence but also about opening space for dialogue - inviting Baker Street to become a place where diverse audiences meet, and ideas inspire, connect, and disrupt positively.”
- Ana Aguirre and Aurelia Islimye, co-founders of BLEUR Gallery
Tele Garden - Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes (2025)
THE COLLABORATION
After Light, The Bloom is brought together by BLEUR (London), DANAE (Paris), and BLUESHIFT (Berlin/Paris) presenting a forward-thinking model of international collaboration that merges curation & digital innovation grounded in new ecologies.
Collaboration as both method and message, the partnership presents an opportunity to engage with works that rethink both material and digital value in contemporary art. All artworks will be minted on the DANAE platform using eco-conscious blockchain infrastructure to ensure transparency, traceability, and long-term preservation. Digital display support has been generously provided by Muse Frame, whose technology helps bring these immersive works to life in-gallery with clarity and care.
Exhibition Details
Title: AFTER LIGHT, THE BLOOM
Curator: Diane Drubay (Blueshift)
Artists: Kelly Richardson (Canada), Bianca Shonee Arroyo-Kreimes (Costa Rica-Canada), Ben Arpea (France) and Louis-Paul Caron (France).
Venue: Bleur Gallery & Studios, 62–64 Baker Street, London W1U 7DF
Opening times: Mon-Fri 10am-6pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun - appointments only
Dates: 22 November 2025 - 13 December 2025
Private View: 25 November 2025
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