HELLO, BEAUTY: Come June, Paul Smith Space in London will be hosting “Wabi-Sabi: Untangling the Meaning of Beauty,” a group exhibition curated by Marcelle Joseph that will feature nine female artists whose work is about beauty in imperfection. 

The show will run from June 5 until Sept. 14 at Paul Smith Space, an artistic hub for creatives located at the Paul Smith store on Albemarle Street in Mayfair.

The artists whose works will be on show are C Lucy R Whitehead, Chechu Álava, Gal Schindler, Grace Mattingly, Harriet Gillett, Lindsey Mendick, Sophie von Hellermann and Susie Green.

The term wabi-sabi originates from the Zen Buddhist tea ceremony in 15th-century Japan. Wabi translates into “less is more,” while sabi refers to “attentive melancholy, an awareness of the transient nature of earthly things and a corresponding pleasure in those that bear the mark of this impermanence,” according to the curator. 

The exhibition will showcase paintings depicting intimate scenes as well as sculptures that challenge original notions of perfection. The artwork is meant to show how inner and outer worlds collide, and give way to a gentler, “wabi-sabi” lifestyle.

According to Joseph, each of the artists in the exhibition has created “quiet, intimate artworks that clamor for beauty in everyday life.”

She added: “Utilizing a spare organic line, a pale palette or a judicious use of negative space, these artists construct harbors of solace in their works in direct contrast to our increasingly chaotic time on planet Earth. This economy of line, form and composition in the works represents an understated aesthetics that could be interpreted as ‘wabi-sabi.’”