KYLA Gallery and Wine Bar

We don’t talk enough about surfaces. Not metaphorical ones – real, mineral, chalky, bruisable surfaces that hold the weight of what’s been felt and then forgotten. In this exhibition, Kik Anchalika’s first solo show, emotion is not just depicted but absorbed into the wall itself. Gouache, typically soft and yielding, is here forced onto lime plaster – an unforgiving canvas that doesn’t welcome reworking. There’s no gloss, no varnish, no retreat. Just sedimented gestures, washed-out tones and silences that seem to linger in the cracks. Kik paints like someone archiving what can't be said – grief, longing, a flicker of joy before it collapses. The result is something tender yet raw, ancient yet recent. A quiet confrontation between pigment and pressure, memory and mineral. Nothing polished, everything present.  Until August 3. Free. KYLA Gallery and Wine Bar, midday-midnight