Penny Goring

2026
Unloving Love

'It's easier to communicate emotions by inventing shapes that show how it feels.' — Penny Goring


The visual identity and in-gallery letterings are conceived as a poetic graphic design language in which text follows gentle swirls. Typography flows on invisible curves and “dances” on moody color backgrounds inhabited by Goring’s works that stem from her personal processing of trauma, experiences of violence, structural austerity, misogyny, and the emotions associated with grief, fear, loss, panic, and powerlessness. The exhibition is designed as a dystopian landscape populated by severed heads, plague flowers, ominous storms, wounded horses, and melting trees. For AMMA Foundation, Mexico.

  • Penny Goring, Unloving Love: screens behind a sheer curtain, in-gallery letterings follow gentle swirls on a moody lime wall
  • Penny Goring, Unloving Love: a blue branching figure studded with eyes stands watch, gentle swirls in a dystopian landscape
  • Penny Goring, Unloving Love: letterings dance on invisible curves across moody purple walls, past a hanging figure
  • Penny Goring, Unloving Love: a gentle swirl curls above a quote on poetry, in Spanish and English, letterings on moody lime
  • Penny Goring, Unloving Love: cloud-shaped title letterings dance on moody purple beside a magenta relief and stone doorway