‘The Reveal, (Duster Jacket) Pocket #1, 2026 © Sarah Pickering

Sarah Pickering explores the home as a site where the mundane and the supernatural collide, and absence is made visible. In a new series of photographic prints, sound and video work, Pickering investigates the intersection of domesticity, science, and the paranormal, rooted in her formative memories of the story of the Enfield Poltergeist, and the legacy of a female magician, Fay Presto.

Rather than an exercise in nostalgia, the artworks are an exploration of how belief is staged and formed. Utilising a range of analogue and digital processes including darkroom photography, X-rays, and Kirlian aura imaging; manipulated cutlery and bent metal offer genuine evidence of the Enfield Poltergeist, and illusion is investigated through the props and garments of actual magicians.

On show at HAPAX Living Room are extracts from two new bodies of work The Reveal and Apport, linked by the idea of belief, illusion, perception and magic.

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