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Sweet Surrender
Grace Lee, Nicolina Morra, Rebecca Storm, 29 May - 19 July

Sweet Surrender: Grace Lee, Nicolina Morra, Rebecca Storm

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  • Enari Gallery is pleased to present Sweet Surrender, a group exhibition featuring Grace Lee, Nicolina Morra, and Rebecca Storm that explores themes of seduction, splendour, and the longing to embrace the unknown. The artists reflect on how images hold nostalgia, convey emotion and how meaning is constructed through what is felt as much as what is seen.

     

    Grace Lee works with recurring motifs and found imagery to construct open-ended visual narratives shaped by ambiguity and emotional contrast. They use animals to operate as psychological stand-ins, symbols of loyalty, distance, projection, and tension. Her paintings balance humour and unease, allowing familiar imagery to shift between stability and disruption.

     

    Nicolina Morra’s work examines the intersections of pop culture, consumerism, and spiritual longing, drawing parallels between religious iconography and contemporary fandom. Through references to UFO imagery, celebrity culture, and collective spectacle, her paintings consider how belief systems form around media figures and mass-produced objects, transforming them into sites of devotion, grief, and transcendence.

     

    Rebecca Storm’s psychologically charged paintings turn inward, using still-life arrangements and symbolic fragments such as broken glasses, tarot cards, obscured faces, and domestic objects to reflect on memory, identity, and emotional containment. Her work considers how vulnerability is managed, concealed, and repeated over time, where clarity and loss often arrive in the same gesture.

    The fusion of the three artists highlights their distinct approaches, revealing how each transforms their personal memories and desires into visual language. Together, their works evoke a sense of exploration and discovery, inviting viewers to interpret and dive into the unknown.

  • Nicolina Morra, Altar (The People’s Princess), 2025
    Artworks

    Longing, Nostalgia, and Obsession

    Altar (The People’s Princess), 2025
    In this work, Nicolina Morra investigates longing as a driving force in the human experience. She recontextualises images from pop culture, most notably Diana, Princess of Wales, giving the iconic figure new meaning through her pairing with hyper-realistic Beanie Babies, a quintessential symbol of 1990s nostalgia.
  • Rebecca Storm, Treat You Good, 2026
    Artworks

    Controlling

    Treat You Good, 2026
    The objects in Rebecca Storm's work evoke rituals of self-care and bodily maintenance, suggesting attempts to control or improve the material self in pursuit of emotional or spiritual healing. However, the pairing also implies futility, like “putting a bandaid on a broken heart,” where surface-level remedies cannot fully resolve deeper pain.
  • Heaven is a state of mind

    Heaven is a state of mind

    Unlike the rest of Grace Lee's work, this one has a black dominant background, as colour appears entirely different against it, as though a spotlight has isolated only what is fundamentally important. Of the three paintings, the devil’s expression remains somewhat inscrutable: part curious, part annoyed, part surprised. The brow is furrowed while the eyes remain wide.
  • ARTISTS

    Grace Lee, Nicolina Morra, Rebecca Storm
  • Nicolina Morra
    Studio portrait of Nicolina Morra

    Nicolina Morra

    Nicolina Morra (US, 2003) investigates longing as a driving force in the human experience in her practice as she recontextualises images, disrupting and imbuing them with new meanings through her painting technique, often paired with hyper-realistic depictions of other objects. She graduated from Florida State University in 2025 with a BFA in studio art and an emphasis on painting. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been featured in several exhibitions in various institutions and independent spaces in the United States, including Latitude Gallery in New York (2026), Allgorithim House, Hollywood (2025), Impossible Currency, Atlanta (2025), LeMieux galleries, New Orleans (2025) and a solo exhibition συ Ruby/Dakota gallery, New York (2025).

  • Grace Lee
    Studio portrait of Grace Lee

    Grace Lee

    Grace Lee's (UK, 1995) work is characterised by repeated motifs of various instruments, portraits, animals, and objects of daily life. Their style can be described as bold and graphic, while their paintings often recreate scenes that seem pulled from a comic book or a medieval manuscript. Lee is an artist living and working in London, having graduated with a BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths in 2017 and an MFA in Fine Art, Painting at The Slade School of Fine Art in 2021. They have been in group shows internationally in a number of galleries, including South Parade, NOVA Contemporary, and Huxley Parlour.
  • Rebecca Storm
    Studio portrait of Rebecca Storm

    Rebecca Storm

    Rebecca Storm's (CA, 1987) paintings attempt to understand the psyche, in addition to the forces inside and outside the self, their impact on memories, consciously, subconsciously, and tangibly. Her method combines taking inspiration from photographic references and later on reinterpreting through distortion. This evokes nostalgia through these recontextualising symbols, as well as offering new semiotics for deciphering contemporary psychological conundrums.

  • INSTALLATION PHOTOS

    Installation view of 'Sweet Surrender' at Enari Gallery. Photography by Almicheal Fraay. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view of 'Sweet Surrender' at Enari Gallery. Photography by Almicheal Fraay. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view of 'Sweet Surrender' at Enari Gallery. Photography by Almicheal Fraay. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view of 'Sweet Surrender' at Enari Gallery. Photography by Almicheal Fraay. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view of 'Sweet Surrender' at Enari Gallery. Photography by Almicheal Fraay. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view of 'Sweet Surrender' at Enari Gallery. Photography by Almicheal Fraay. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view of 'Sweet Surrender' at Enari Gallery. Photography by Almicheal Fraay. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view of 'Sweet Surrender' at Enari Gallery. Photography by Almicheal Fraay. (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).

    Installation view of 'Sweet Surrender' at Enari Gallery. Photography by Almicheal Fraay.

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    • Nicolina Morra, Altar (The People’s Princess), 2025
      Nicolina Morra, Altar (The People’s Princess), 2025
    • Nicolina Morra, Angel, 2026
      Nicolina Morra, Angel, 2026
    • Nicolina Morra, Agnus Dei, 2026
      Nicolina Morra, Agnus Dei, 2026
    • Nicolina Morra, Communion (Love Me Tender), 2025
      Nicolina Morra, Communion (Love Me Tender), 2025
    • Nicolina Morra, More Popular Than Jesus I, 2026
      Nicolina Morra, More Popular Than Jesus I, 2026
    • Nicolina Morra, More Popular Than Jesus II, 2026
      Nicolina Morra, More Popular Than Jesus II, 2026
    • Nicolina Morra, Sighting No. 1, 2026
      Nicolina Morra, Sighting No. 1, 2026
    • Nicolina Morra, Sighting No. 2, 2026
      Nicolina Morra, Sighting No. 2, 2026
    • Grace Lee, Cats and Dogs, 2026
      Grace Lee, Cats and Dogs, 2026
    • Grace Lee, Committed to the Crime, 2026
      Grace Lee, Committed to the Crime, 2026
    • Grace Lee, The Work, 2026
      Grace Lee, The Work, 2026
    • Rebecca Storm, Hindsight, 2026
      Rebecca Storm, Hindsight, 2026
    • Rebecca Storm, Parlor Trick, 2026
      Rebecca Storm, Parlor Trick, 2026
    • Rebecca Storm, Treat You Good, 2026
      Rebecca Storm, Treat You Good, 2026
    • Rebecca Storm, Reaper, 2026
      Rebecca Storm, Reaper, 2026

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