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The City Listens Back at Purist Gallery, London

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Microclimates, pigeons, algae on canal walls, ride-sharing data, soil sensors, CCTV acoustics, and our own biometrics all co-produce a living feedback loop. The city listens back invites works that treat the city as a sentient mesh: code like mycelium, rivers as data pipes, bodies as antennas.

The show asks: when every surface is instrumented and every organism emits a signal, who is actually listening — and to whom?

Across installation, sculpture, painting, print, sound and moving image, thirteen artists explore how natural, human and technological systems register, transmit and reshape each other.

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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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Jack Jessé & Paula Molina, Caught on cctv, 2025, 2m x 1m x 0.6m, Mixed media installation, natural dye prints
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Jack Jessé & Paula Molina, Caught on cctv, 2025, 2m x 1m x 0.6m, Mixed media installation, natural dye prints
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Jack Jessé & Paula Molina, Caught on cctv, 2025, 2m x 1m x 0.6m, Mixed media installation, natural dye prints
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Judy Maxwell-McNicol, the second coming of ann lee
 115 x 100 x 190 cm
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Judy Maxwell-McNicol, the second coming of ann lee
 115 x 100 x 190 cm
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Judy Maxwell-McNicol, the second coming of ann lee
 115 x 100 x 190 cm
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Katya Tsareva, {2}, 2025, Watercolor on paper, 32×22 cm
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Kirill Basalaev, Alimentation, 2025, H47xl28xw29cm, Cement, filler, sand, epoxy resin, metal wire
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Mashai, Hunter, 2016-25, Metall, gloss, oil, d35 cm
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Nick Walter, From the series faces: paula no. 1
 archival pigment print on hahnemühle photo rag ultra smooth, unframed, 841 × 1189 mm,
 edition of 5 + 1 AP
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Vi, Became a bat in my own house
digital painting print, spray paint, acrylic paint, oil pastels, pens,
 crayons on stretched canvas
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Vi, Became a bat in my own house
digital painting print, spray paint, acrylic paint, oil pastels, pens,
 crayons on stretched canvas
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Yujin Jung, Mapping the mysteries, 45 × 27 cm, Oil on canvas
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Amanda Bennetts, latency + lacerations, 2025, digital film, 9 minutes
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Bill Wang Yi, have you heard of her here?, 173x40x63cm, polyester, emulsified oil, activated carbon, gauze fiber, chinese lacquer, soil, stainless steel
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Bill Wang Yi, have you heard of her here?, 173x40x63cm, polyester, emulsified oil, activated carbon, gauze fiber, chinese lacquer, soil, stainless steel
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Daniel Widrig, NEGATIVE, 2025, 3d printed uv resin, spraypainted
 120cm x 3cm x 120cm
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The City Listens Back, 2025, exhibition view, Purist Gallery, London
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Dot Als, Architectures influx, 170x135x70cm, Interactive installation

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