One Continuous Poem is a contemporary response to a historic gesture: the commission by King Philip II of Spain of Le Poesie, a series of mythological paintings created by Titian in the 16th century. Taking this ambitious project as a starting point, this exhibition offers a loose, personal reimagining of those narratives—filtered through queer perspective, modern life, and everyday symbolism.

Some works reference specific paintings by Titian, while others are linked more freely through Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the shared source material for both the original Poesie and this new body of work. Here, classical myths—Danaë, Narcissus, Arachne, Europa, Salmacis—are not frozen in marble or dramatic climax. Instead, they appear as quiet encounters, refigured through contemporary bodies, domestic spaces, and personal rituals.

Two still lifes in pink and blue provide a structural and emotional anchor to the exhibition, referencing Picasso’s Blue and Rose periods while gently challenging the gendered and cultural binaries those colours evoke. These works suggest that transformation doesn’t always look heroic—it can be subtle, tender, or even found in the mess of daily life.

One Continuous Poem asks of us what myth always has: to see the world differently, to find ourselves in other bodies, and to recognise desire not as deviation, but as a form of continuity.