PLAY
Exhibitions Published on:-
VIEWING ROOM
JEALOUS
ALDO C GAGLIARDI
Jealous presents ‘PLAY’, the debut exhibition by London-based artist, Aldo C Gagliardi.
Part of PhotoMonth 2026, this exclusive exhibition showcases Aldo C Gagliardi’s abstract works exploring image, memory and perception through print fragments drawn from, and transformed beyond, their cinematic origins.
Now extended to run until Saturday 17th October, this Jealous exhibition features a collection of framed, limited-edition archival digital prints, alongside two of the artist's unique edition 7-layer screenprints with hand painted backgrounds, printed and published at Jealous Print Studio featuring material from the artist's recent book, PLAY, with Specola. The publication extends the project into another form of tangible media and includes essays by Carlo Montariello and Patrick Gamble, alongside poetic reflections by Laura Shipler Chico.
Aldo’s works use cinema as a point of departure rather than a subject. Moving between analogue and digital processes, imagery is reconstructed into stills that capture light, bodies and afterimages – carrying traces of personal memory and waves of emotion.
The images occupy an unstable space between familiarity and uncertainty. A frame may seem recognisable without ever becoming identifiable, or trigger a memory that belongs as much to the viewer as to the work itself. Writer and film critic Patrick Gamble describes this through the idea of the ‘false friend’: something familiar enough to suggest immediate meaning, yet capable of leading somewhere entirely different. Removed from cinematic sequence, the image remains fixed while, as Gamble observes, ‘what frames it now is you.’
‘PLAY’ the exhibition and PLAY the book exist as distinct entities, yet are shaped by the same imagery, inviting us to build our own narratives. As Gamble concludes: ‘The frame is fixed. The narrative is ours.’
The exhibition will run from 7–17 October, with its opening night taking place on Thursday 8 October at Jealous, 53 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3PT. Discover all Aldo C Gagliardi print editions created in the Jealous Print Studio and keep up to date with Aldo here.
Aldo C Gagliardi signing his 'PLAY' digital print editions, created in the Jealous Print Studio.
'PLAY' features two of the artist's unique edition 'Play No.1' 7-layer screenprints with hand painted backgrounds.
Archival inkjet print editions, printed in the Jealous Print Studio and featured in Aldo C Gagliardi's debut exhibition, 'PLAY'.
Shop the artwork
Aldo
C
Gagliardi
PLAY (Photobook)
Aldo
C
Gagliardi
PLAY No. 1
Aldo
C
Gagliardi
PLAY No. 9
Aldo
C
Gagliardi
PLAY No. 8
Aldo
C
Gagliardi
PLAY No. 74
Aldo
C
Gagliardi
PLAY No. 71
Aldo
C
Gagliardi
PLAY No. 70
