INKU Sphere's 'Pending Response' at Somers Gallery: 18 Artists, 7 Days, One Curatorial Frame

Key facts

• Pending Response was curated by Shuning Liu in collaboration with INKU Sphere and ran 21–28 August 2026 at Somers Gallery, 96 Chalton Street, London NW1 1HJ.
• The exhibition featured eighteen artists across three chapters—Received, Pending, and Response?—which were applied as an editorial frame after the works were selected.
• INKU Sphere was founded in 2024 and operates on the principle of artists supporting artists, with a mission of mental wellbeing through art.
• The curatorial text references Henri Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis, Jonathan Crary's 24/7, and Barthes's lover waiting by the telephone.
• Jamie Mills's The Hermit and The Runner are identified as the best works in the show; The Runner is cut from an industrial conveyor belt.
• Six artists in the exhibition address displacement without prompting from the reading list, which the review calls the show's real subject.
• Kuo Wu's Infinite Forms, Woven by the Waves of the Heart, a performance installation with crystal and Nepalese singing bowls, a gong, stretch fabric, and projection, closed the show under a wall text about rest, attention, and repair.
• The review concludes that an exhibition must trust its objects more than its reading list.