• It’s where you’ll find a branch of the world-renowned Taschen store

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This is the maker of sexy art, design and photography books, many of which will look incredibly dope on a coffee table.

• It’s also got a wonderful Italian spot in the form of Manicomio

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This classy restaurant offers both indoor and alfresco dining, and considering the area, a reasonably priced set menu – you can get a three course meal for £23.75.

• It’s the home of Saatchi Gallery

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The next time you’re forced to queue up for nearly two hours for another Saatchi gallery exhibition – the nerve of that Louis Vuitton show! – get fed and watered somewhere around the DOYS beforehand (they’ve got a Polpo cafe) so at least you’re not starving to death. That said, the Rolling Stones exhibition is on until 4th September and since it’s ticketed, you’ll be spared the hassle to get in.

• There’s a party for the Queen on June 12th

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Her majesty is turning 90, so there’s going to be a street party with plenty of fine food, booze and cake – and we’re all invited!

• And the Square is hosting a screening  of the Wimbledon semi-finals and finals from 8-10th July

Strawberries & Screen will be your chance to pitch up on bean bags, munch on picnic food, sip Pimms and catch all the action at SW19 for free.

Have you been to the Duke of York Square? What do you love about it? Tell me all about it in the comments! 

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Artist-writer Kivland is a Research Associate of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research in London, and Freudian theory permeates her thinking and shapes her work. In her series at DOMOBAAL, Kivland focuses on concepts of memory, unconscious desire, repression and the Uncanny. She draws upon a personally collated archive of postcards, magazine clippings, advertisements and prints, cropping them at unexpected angles, re-painting them and making laborious copies in carefully rendered pencil drawings. The impact of these alterations on the way the images are perceived is discussed in two new critical essays of Kivland’s work, written specifically for the exhibition and on show in limited-edition bound volumes.

One of these discusses Kivland’s work in terms of the Uncanny. At once disturbing and alluring, the female is ‘always seductive and sublime, and yet ugly, beguiling and unsettling’. In her Les Vedettes series, Kivland alters picture postcards of flawless, sleek-necked stars of the silver screen by crudely brightening their teeth and eyes with flecks of gouache. ‘The postcards are slowly fading’ Kivland tells TCé. ‘One day (I imagine), only the lips and highlight in the eyes will remain.’ A haunting thought.

Also look out for Kivland’s The Unconscious is a City, in which the artist has applied swathes of gouache in greyscale to rarely found 1950s picture postcards of Rome. Although irrevocably altering the image, Kivland keeps to the contours of the picture and the documents retain a visual memory of their original content. The series make for a wonderfully clear visual analogy for one for Freud’s lesser-known (and not fully formulated) theories of Rome as an analogy of memory, where past and present co-exist. However, they also encourage us to take a position as to the aesthetic decisions actioned by Kivland – are her rough daubings of paint the traces of a destructive, anarchic, even iconoclastic act? Or might they suggest a process of reincarnation, as Kivland retrieves an otherwise rather forgettable image from the confines of the archive? Time to get thinking. (Words: Florence Ritter) 

Sharon Kivland at DomoBaal runs from January 18th – February 16th . For more info, visit: www.domobaal.com

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