10/10/25 - 01/11/25

Haricot Gallery is thrilled to present Fluid Memories, a duo exhibition featuring the works of Isabella Amram and Anna Pakosz. Both painters approach the canvas as a site of transformation, where body, energy, and material converge.
 
Amram builds her paintings slowly, layering and scraping to create a surface charged with colour, texture, and depth. Each canvas becomes a palimpsest, where what is buried continues to resonate and what emerges on the surface remains open to change. Shapes gather and dissolve, casting memory as something fluid, unstable, and alive. Her works unfold as rituals of uncertainty, balanced between revelation and concealment.
 
Pakosz, by contrast, embraces immediacy and flux. Working mostly on the ground with visceral energy, she allows every mark to remain, turning the canvas into a living record of movement and encounter. The traces of making are not hidden but celebrated, with sudden bursts of coloured forms capturing fleeting moments in an ongoing dialogue between control and surrender.
 
Placed side by side, their practices reveal painting as an act of transformation – intimate, restless, and alive. Grounded in the body yet expansive in reach, Amram and Pakosz remind us that art is not only something to be seen, but something to be felt, experienced, and lived.
 
Fluid Memories speaks to painting as an ever-changing current between presence and disappearance.
 
Words by Matilda Craven

Isabella Amram

Isabella Amram lives and works in London. She has completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art (2024–2025). She holds a BA from Brown University (2013–2018) and a Diploma from Chelsea College of Arts (2023–2024). Solo exhibitions include First Solo Show, curated by Kira Streletzki in conjunction with Deutsche Bank, Berlin (2025). Group exhibitions include ‘A Journey Into the Unknown’, Haricot Gallery, London (2025). Immaterial, Soho Revue, London (2025); Art on a Postcard International Women’s Day Auction, The Bomb Factory, London, UK (2025); ’Reflexion’, Stay Tuned Projects, Château Saint Maur, Cogolin, France (2024); Pop-up group show, Standpoint Gallery, London, UK (2023); ‘Intuition Goes Before You’, curated by Vittoria Beltrame, 13 Soho Square, London, UK (2023); ‘ONE Akaretler’, Bilgili Holding and Shopigo Art, Istanbul, Turkey (2023); Art on a Postcard Winter Auction, Gathering Gallery, London, UK (2023).