TRIBECA—British artist Louise Giovanelli is currently presenting a new body of work at Grimm 54 in New York. The exhibition, titled Still Moving, runs through June 21, 2025, and features a suite of paintings made in collaboration with the downtown cinema Metrograph. The project marks the artist’s first New York solo show since 2022. The paintings respond directly to a curated set of films playing at Metrograph throughout the month...
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TRIBECA—British artist Louise Giovanelli is currently presenting a new body of work at Grimm 54 in New York. The exhibition, titled Still Moving, runs through June 21, 2025, and features a suite of paintings made in collaboration with the downtown cinema Metrograph. The project marks the artist’s first New York solo show since 2022.
The paintings respond directly to a curated set of films playing at Metrograph throughout the month. Selections include Gummo, Kids, Ticket of No Return, and Buffalo ‘66—all films known for their stylized visuals and offbeat emotional registers. The partnership between gallery and cinema allows visitors to experience Giovanelli’s works alongside their cinematic source material.
Technically precise and visually subtle, Giovanelli’s paintings often feature cropped, glowing images that float just outside of clear narrative. In this series, she draws on specific film stills, isolating fragments of faces, gestures, and light. The results are neither straightforward portraits nor strict reproductions—they operate more like visual echoes.
Giovanelli’s interest lies in the tension between image and surface. Her technique, marked by luminous underpainting and controlled brushwork, foregrounds the material qualities of paint itself. Even when her subjects are drawn from moving images, the works resist motion, focusing instead on moments of stasis and suggestion.
Some paintings seem to reference the stylistic trademarks of 90s indie cinema—bleached brows, metallic eyeshadow, diffuse lighting—but they are refracted through Giovanelli’s distinctive lens. Rather than replicating film aesthetics, she slows them down, pulling them into a different register altogether. The results feel precise, contemplative, and strangely intimate.
Louise Giovanelli, White Cube
The collaboration with Metrograph reflects an ongoing interest in cross-disciplinary dialogue. While the films screen independently, their presence in the exhibition is implied through wall text and image sourcing. Visitors can choose to engage with both contexts—or view the works entirely on their own terms.
Grimm 54, located on White Street in Tribeca, has become a reliable venue for thoughtful, mid-career presentations like this one. The space is scaled to suit the quiet intensity of Giovanelli’s canvases, allowing each work room to breathe. The exhibition is accompanied by a concise text but no formal catalogue.
Still Moving is on view through June 21. Screenings at Metrograph continue throughout the month.
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