Shaqúelle Whyte - Winter Remembers April

Shaqúelle Whyte Snow Country, 2025 oil on linen200 x 210 cm, 78 ¾ x 82 ¾ in(PH12696)
Courtesy the artist and Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London. Copyright Shaqúelle Whyte 2025. Photography by Eva Herzog

Shaqúelle Whyte’s second solo exhibition with Pippy Houldsworth Gallery honors musical heroes from Boris Gardiner to The Beatles, titled after Wynton Marsalis’ jazz interpretation. The artist continues exploring non-linear time where past, present, and future converge—figures unfold through myriad physical and psychological permutations like Eadweard Muybridge’s locomotion studies. Marked by impermanence yet engaged with circularity, Whyte examines the Black male body, positing that Black artists’ concerns remain unchanged since the 1960s civil rights movement. His cinematic approach creates visually dynamic compositions at scale, playing with perspective to blur divides between audience and subject. Each work functions as vignette—blink and the scene changes. Ambiguity strikes throughout, leaving viewers to decide whether scenes depict play or pursuit.

Winter Remembers April is open at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery until 8 November 2025