From the country that gave birth to Banksky, comes a remarkable new street artist who has been creating his art on toilet doors! Yes, you read that right. Although London-based Karma Khazi had very formal art training, he then tried to forget what they were taught and to unlearn their innate abilities to make work that is spontaneous, and in some vital way, true to the world as they perceive
Behind the locked door of pub an inspired Khazi gave free vent to every random thought, opinion, complaint, rage, or desire. Khazi says he sees these marks as authentic free expression, offering insight into modern experience, unmediated by questions of taste or cultivated judgment, or even me. In his new exhibition, Sh!t Show in Shoreditch there are almost 100 pieces inspired by the messages he found on a 250-pub crawl including a single black door featuring 63 different bits of graffiti all pulled from different toilet cubicles, 63 individual canvases, fiberglass pub signs and more.
A short film by double-BAFTA-winning filmmaker Lee Phillips will also feature in the show and music created at Courtyard Studios will also be played during the exhibition. And in the spirit of graffiti, there’ll be space for you to add your own scribblings to then become part of the collection.
Sh!t Show by Karma Khazi, 133 Bethnal Green Road, 26-28 January 2024, freeLabels: 2024, Graffiti Exhibition, Karmi Khazi, London, Shit Show, Shoreditch
