LON Gallery is thrilled to present Beach Boys, an exhibition of new work by Jeremy Eaton, as part of the PHOTO 2022 Festival.

In Beach Boys, Eaton presents a series of prints and sculptural elements that loosely retell Edmund White’s first novel ‘Forgetting Elena’ through imagery gleaned from a series of queer 8mm films from the same period of the novel (1960s and 1970s). The exhibition engages with experimental artistic films, erotic films and home videos to collage vignettes influenced by Edmund White’s mannerist and surreal narrative. Set in a time when queer visibility was becoming more prominent the exhibition looks at the love, poetics, newly awakened consciousness and eroticism that precipitated this period of experimentation—creating a narrative flow to immerse the viewer in a textural series of washed out coastal imagery.