The Devil’s in the Fine Print Exhibition

Opening night ~
Tue 19 Nov 18:00 – 23:00

Exhibition opening hours ~
Wed 20 Nov – Fri 22 Nov 10:00 – 18:00

The Devil’s in the Fine Print will contain sculpture, performance and video work, inviting you to reflect on your own unspoken agreements. At the heart of the exhibition, the question of codependency: how the structures we rely on offer comfort and meaning, but also demand loyalty and bind us to frameworks we may not fully understand. While our beliefs and commitments can empower, they also come with “fine print” that shapes our lives and choices. During Write Your Own, a live performance held at the opening, visitors will be invited to define their own beliefs under self-defined terms, engaging directly with the act of commitment.

Nina Ołtarzewska (b.1998) is a French artist based in London. She briefly attended the Panthéon Sorbonne’s Fine Art course before moving to Northern Ireland where she graduated with a BFA in 2021 from the Belfast School of Art. She received graduate awards from Pollen Studios, PS², Platform Arts, the University of Atypical and Bbeyond. After being based in Flax Art Studios for a year, she moved to London to pursue an MA Fine Art at the Chelsea College of Art, which she graduated from with distinction in 2024. As well as practicing individually in London, she is one fifth of Successful Artists collective.

Influenced by my upbringing and personal experiences, the work will examine how the systems we align with—whether personal beliefs, social norms, or institutional structures—can be both nourishing and sources of dependency, holding us in a balance between trust and critical reflection.

The exhibition opens on November 19th at 6 p.m. and runs through November 22nd at SET Vault. Join us to mediate the terms and conditions of your commitments and explore the subtle forces that influence our lives.