Simon Evans

Following on from last years’ Genius 2.0, Simon Evans presents another ‘magnificently pessimistic’ (The List) look at modern life and what the hell has gone wrong, in his brand new show Dressing For Dinner.

This year, in a similarly splenetic vein, he scrutinises the departure of tradition, convention and formality from life – public, private and especially domestic.

His children’s refusal to change into a clean shirt for dinner on weeknights, a neighbour’s boy who addresses him cheerfully by his Christian name, the replacement of barber shop pornography with Star Wars memorabilia, and tattooing journals, and the strange pricking of tears that sting his eyes when he enters a hardware shop and encounters an elderly man in a three-quarter-length brown cotton coat who might indeed be able to lay his hands on either fork handles or four candles. All signs that life is losing its edges.

Exhibits will be presented, and a case will be made. Questions will be taken, and a verdict will be reached. Digressions may, however, also be made.