Shaniqwa Jarvis's solo exhibition 'Only Love Can Break Your Heart' opens at Public Gallery in London on 30 April 2026, featuring twelve works across silk, mirrored surfaces, aluminum, and collage. The show includes suspended silk panels in front of mirrors, floral imagery, portraiture, abstract compositions, a moving image work combining archival footage and recorded audio, and a second book titled 'GUTS' published by Super Labo with an introduction by curator Essence Harden.
The exhibition matters because it exemplifies a growing trend in contemporary photography where images are treated as physical, tactile materials rather than fixed representations. By integrating mirror-silk hybrids, material photography, and multimedia memory assemblages, Jarvis challenges traditional wall-based curation and offers a multisensory, viewer-dependent experience that reconfigures photographic storytelling into kinetic spatial compositions.