Matèria is pleased to continue its street-facing Vitrine programme with a focused presentation of UK-based artist Plum Cloutman.

 Conceived as a parallel initiative to the gallery’s main exhibition programme, the Vitrine returns to one of its founding intentions: to spotlight singular works by national and international artists, with particular attention to practices not yet exhibited in Rome. Visible from the street and accessible beyond gallery hours, the Vitrine operates as a direct interface between artistic research and the urban context of San Lorenzo.

 Forgotten Sauce by Plum Cloutman unfolds like the fragmented logic of a dream; an image disassembled and imperfectly reassembled, akin to a plate broken and restored out of sequence. The work evokes a suspended domestic narrative: a gesture interrupted, a space displaced, a memory partially retrieved.

 Plum Cloutman’s practice is distinguished by intimately scaled works that merge personal memory, fantasy, and interior space. Often no larger than a postcard, her paintings construct miniature yet psychologically expansive worlds in which the familiar becomes quietly uncanny. Through delicate stratifications of oil paint, watercolour pencil, and pastel, Cloutman builds surfaces that evoke woodgrain, clay, and weathered walls; textures that hold a sense of duration, tactility and subtle transformation.

 A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art (2018), Cloutman has exhibited widely across the UK and internationally, with recent presentations in New York, Athens, Los Angeles, Montreal, and Amsterdam. Her work has received the Catriona White Prize and the Lyon & Turnbull Prize, and was featured in the Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries exhibition.

*With thanks to Althuis Hofland Fine Arts for their support and collaboration.