Until the 6th July, ASC Gallery presents The Impossible Places, a solo exhibition by Sara Sahores. Curated by Mora Pranteda, the exhibition marks the artist’s first solo presentation in the UK following her receipt of the ASC Award in 2025. Bringing together a new series of works, The Impossible Places explores uncertainty through different landscapes.
The exhibition presents works that originate from screenshots appropriated from publicly accessible livestream surveillance camera footage. The works are captures of what Sahores has named ‘impossible places’: sites that remain physically inaccessible to the artist, landscapes that feel familiar and unknowable, real and imagined.
As in Sara’s previous body of work, the images are intentionally distanced from a lived reality; thereby, she continues to negate the documentary truism of the medium. This use of photography approximates that of a film still, inviting an alternate function: to confuse rather than clarify.
The medium of the screen print is not arbitrary; it transforms the low-resolution pixels of the surveillance camera into a blurred image rather than a pixelated one. The result is not a technical artifact of digital resolution, but a mysterious, clouded visual image. Upon closer inspection, each image becomes less recognisable, less clear, less revealing. A landscape becomes a vision and a space suspended in time.
Their (un)recognisability is also emphasised by the non-literal relationship between the image and their chosen names, inviting more questions than answers: where was it taken? What is this place? Could it be real? Though sourced through systems of surveillance and objects of recorded observation, when transposed to image, they become, for the spectator, personal encounters with a place of their creation. Ultimately, by escaping possibility, they escape meaning: the realities they depict only exist in the imagination, as a construction. The possibilities of worlds that can be constructed upon them are limitless.
Sara’s exhibition is an invitation to keep moving through the world with the eyes open, with curiosity. Not simply to observe, but to participate: to listen, to imagine, and to build stories within the spaces the images do not tell. Meaning is never singular. They remind us that understanding is always partial, always in motion; and that perhaps the value of art lies not in providing answers, but in teaching us how to stay with the question. Here, wonderful conversations can happen.
Sara Sahores (b. 1998, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a visual artist and photographer based in London. She holds an MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art and previously studied Architecture and Photography in Argentina. Working across different techniques and formats, her practice explores the material and spatial possibilities of the photographic image. Her work has been featured in two solo exhibitions in Buenos Aires (2024, 2025) and in numerous group presentations in London, Buenos Aires, Paris and Arles. Most recently, she participated in the latest edition of Photo London Fair with Maison Pan.
A written publication featuring texts by invited writers will accompany the exhibition and will be launched during the closing event on Saturday, 4th July.
Sara Sahores — The Impossible Places
25 June – 6 July 2026
ASC Gallery
3 Loughborough St.
London SE11 5RB
www.ascstudios.co.uk
Closing Event: 4th July 5-7 pm
