Haze of Glory

Sasha Gordon
Surrealism has become such a selling point these days that almost anything vaguely uncanny can be pitched as surreal, but Sasha Gordon’s work really does hit the key themes of an unconscious counternarrative to everyday life. Photo: Jason Schmidt/Courtesy of Matthew Brown and David Zwirner
Marion Maneker
October 3, 2025

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When I walked into David Zwirner’s gallery last Thursday night for the opening of Sasha Gordon’s new show, Haze, I was struck by not only the size of the crowd, but also its intensity. “The opening was packed,” Marlene Zwirner, a senior director at the gallery, told me via email today. The combination of Zwirner’s regular audience and Gordon’s Instagram following and fans meant there was a line around the block to get into the gallery by 7 p.m. “We haven’t seen anything like this since our last Kusama exhibition,” Zwirner said.