F-tales

Folk tales, fables and faery stories have been told for as long as people have gathered. They are ways of making sense of the world, often turning specific experiences into broader ideas or lessons. Sometimes those lessons are clear. At other times they are difficult to pin down, deliberately obscure or entirely fantastical. Some stories combine moral instruction and escapism, while others read like fragments from a much larger, unknown mythology. In this exhibition, Stuart Elliott imagines the city of Veudplatz as a factory constantly producing such tales. F-tales presents a selection from this imagined output, filtered through the perspective of a now defunct information retailer. The works invite viewers into an unfinished narrative world, where meaning is suggested rather than fixed. Drawing on the visual language of storytelling, memory and speculation, Elliott constructs a series of images and situations that oscillate between the familiar and the enigmatic. Characters, symbols and narrative fragments emerge without fully revealing their origins, encouraging viewers to navigate the exhibition as they might a collection of half-remembered stories. Rather than offering a single coherent narrative, F-tales unfolds as an open-ended constellation of possibilities, where fiction and interpretation become central to the experience.