Nancy Honey at Claire de Rouen, Shoreditch

May 21. The Claire de Rouen exhibition at the Shoreditch location wraps this week. Nancy Honey's photographs have been on view since the shop opened the new space in April. Twenty-three prints, most from the last decade, all working the same territory: what it feels like to be a girl.

The show arrived quietly. No press event, no catalog, no artist talk. The bookshop posted a single Instagram slide. The photographs hung on the walls between the shelves. A reader in the back corner could turn and be looking at a print.

Honey has been working this line since the 1990s. The photographs are color, often interior, usually one figure. The light is daylight. The framing is close but not tight. A girl on a bed. A girl at a window. A girl in a kitchen. The work does not announce itself. It sits and waits.

The Shoreditch space is smaller than the old Marylebone shop, which closed in 2023. Claire de Rouen moved east and opened the new location in a former textile warehouse. The exhibition is the first full run of photographs the shop has held. Before this, the walls carried magazine covers and book jackets.

Honey, American-born and London-based since the 1980s, has shown at galleries in New York and Los Angeles but not often in London. The Claire de Rouen run was mounted by the shop's director, who has carried Honey's monographs since the early 2000s. The prints are for sale. Prices were not posted.

The show closes Saturday. No follow-up planned yet.