Aziza, Erin Mommsen, Jordan Rubio, Julien Heintz, Maia Twombly, Nick Jensen, Nicholas Aliberti, Sage Schachter, and Zachary Merle
SETAREH is pleased to present Yesterday, a group exhibition of works by Aziza, Erin Mommsen, Jordan Rubio, Julien Heintz, Maia Twombly, Nick Jensen, Nicholas Aliberti, Sage Schachter, and Zachary Merle. The exhibition’s title names something immediately familiar yet fundamentally inaccessible: a moment close enough to remember, but already beyond reach. The works in this exhibition inhabit the distance between experience and recollection, tracing what survives in the space between them.
Coinciding with Frieze London, SETAREH will be open for extended hours, from Monday 12th October to Saturday 17th October 2026. The opening reception for Yesterday will be on Monday, 12th October, at SETAREH London, 2 Bourdon St, Mayfair, W1K 3PA, London, from 6 to 8pm.
Across nine practices, personal histories are salvaged through deep engagement with material. Sage Schachter’s canvases carry environmental impressions drawn from his New York surroundings; Nicholas Aliberti treats discarded metals to processes of transformation; and Zachary Merle works from family archives to recover memories obscured by his epilepsy. Remnants of the past are gathered, juxtaposed and overlaid, echoing the fragmented structure that forms memory.
Even the human form cannot act as an immutable vessel for history. Figures surface from vivid dreamscapes only to dissolve before they can be fully recognised. Abstracted lines and gestures take on anthropomorphic shapes, blending our imagination with that of the artist. Fluid forms, rhythmic gestures, and sweeping strokes permeate the work, reflecting the scattered and unstable mechanics of recollection. As the boundaries of time erode, the past becomes porous and is revealed not as an archive to be retrieved, but as something that is still living.
Yesterday resists the impulse to resolve memory into narrative. What remains instead is residue, traces that insist on presence without claiming permanence. The exhibition considers memory not as a fixed record of the past, but as something that is continuously reconstructed in the present.
Aziza Dzhanzakova (b. 1994) lives and works between Paris, France and Moscow, Russia. Selected group exhibitions include: T.O.Y, Tales of Yesterday, Paris, France (2024); Hide Gallery, Moscow, Russia (2022); Mutabor Space, Moscow, Russia (2021).
Erin Mommsen (b.1996) lives and works between New York and London. Selected group exhibitions include: Memento, scroll nyc, New York, USA (2026); Chilli x Slip House, Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA (2026); The Last Seahorse Neighing in an Egg, Ninetto Gallery, Athens, Greece (2025).
Jordan Rubio (b.1998) lives and works between London and New York. Selected solo exhibitions include: Before the day, after the night, Room57, New York, USA (2026); Good and Evil, Taglia Gallery, New York, USA (2023). Selected group exhibitions include: pity the busy monster, Matt Carey-Williams, London, UK (2026); Iron fairies, COHJU, Kyoto, Japan (2026); Narratives of Transformation: Three New Positions, SETAREH, Berlin, Germany (2025); South Open 3, OHSH Projects, London, UK; Parrhesia, Roman Road, London, UK (2025); Roamer Project 2.0, Madrid, Spain (2025); Real artist sweat, Tiderip, London, UK (2025); Encre sympathique, Vogel art, Nice, France (2025).
Julien Heintz (b. 1997) lives and works in Paris, France. Selected solo exhibitions include: Residual Moment, Mennour, Paris, France (2025); L’Anonyme comme medium, pal project, Paris, France (2024); Spectres of Memory, pal project, Paris, France (2022). Selected group exhibitions include: Fatigue, POUSH, Paris, France (2026); Six Painters, Koppel Projects, London, UK (2020).
Maia Twombly (b. 1999) lives and works in New York. She studied Photography & Imaging at New York University before expanding her practice into fashion, drawing, and painting. Following her studies at the New York Studio School, she is currently attending the New York Academy of Art, continuing to develop a multidisciplinary practice rooted in image-making and figurative art.
Nick Jensen (b. 1984) lives and works in London, UK. Solo exhibitions include: Boy with a Tambourine, Union Gallery, London (2021); Tin Can Roof, Parlour Gallery, London (2018); Formerly, Twelve Around One, London (2012). Group exhibitions include Uprising, Schloss Görne, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2022); Bodies in Space, Mirror, Plymouth November (2021); The Stage more Beholding, Frestonian gallery, London (2020); Staring at the Sun, Union Gallery, London (2020).
Nicholas Aliberti (b. 1999) lives and works in London, UK. Solo exhibitions include: Burned, torched, sprayed, repeat, Milan, Italy (2025). Group exhibitions include: Interstice, Milan, Italy (2026).
Sage Schachter (b. 2002) lives and works in New York, USA. Solo exhibitions include: MineralSpirits, Walker Art Projects, New York, USA (2025). Group exhibitions include: breach, SETAREH x Market Gallery, London, UK (2026); That Was Then, This Is Now, Jeffrey Deitch x American Art Projects, Miami, USA (2025).
Zachary Merle (b. 1997) lives and works in London, UK. Group exhibitions include: Soft Evidence, Chilli Art Projects, London (2026). August Sundays, Pipeline Gallery, London, UK (2026), Paradoxical Field: Prelude I, Purist Gallery, London (2025); Only Shallow, Lee Scully x TwoPlusTwo, London (2025); Full Disclosure, D Contemporary, London (2025); In The Corner Of My Eye, Fresh Salad x Koppel Collective, London (2024). The opening reception for Yesterday will be on Monday, 12th October, at SETAREH London, 2 Bourdon St, Mayfair, W1K 3PA, London, from 6 to 8pm.
