03/06/2026
V1 Gallery is pleased to present
I Love You More When It’s Over
A solo exhibition by Mars Singleton
June 12 – August 8, 2026
Opening reception: June 12, 16.00 - 21.00
the true paradises are paradises we have lost.
— Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time (Vol. 7, 1927)
Life is often a cycle of longing, as desire is sharpened by absence, and as the beauty of a moment often appears clearest once it has slipped away. I Love You More When It’s Over unfolds within this tension, from the fundamental realisation about desire and space: that we often love things most acutely when they're no longer ours to hold. The exhibition lingers in the fond memory of the sun’s warmth, felt when a winter storm’s icy hands touch your shivering body. As the seasons shift, this yearning turns into the desire for air so cold you can taste it, while standing in the rays of a blistering sun that sets the horizon shimmering.
Mars Singleton’s paintings carry the residue of a life left behind — the lessons, injuries, setbacks, setups, fights, and frolics — while overlooking a bright landscape of the present. Though they meditate on the clarity that arrives only after a chapter closes, these paintings aren’t nostalgic; rather, they are shaped by an acknowledgment of passing time and life’s shifting seasons. Singleton’s paintings are memories touched by the rose-coloured fingers of remembrance. These moments, now fixed on wooden panels, in ochre tones of light, aren’t recalled; they’re reenacted, and in that reenactment, they represent a time, place or version of events that may never have existed. In memory, we breathe familiar air anew.
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