Los Angeles artist Martine Syms is presenting her latest solo exhibition, Knot Eye, at Sadie Coles HQ in London. On view at the gallery's Kingly Street space from 17 September to 7 November 2026, the show moves between cinema, narrative and publishing, continuing a practice that treats reality and fiction as porous materials. The exhibition turns on two films completed this year. RW-LO, a 22-minute docu-fantasy, blends staged reenactment with home-movie footage from the life of Brent David Freaney, a lifelong devotee of pop culture whose teenage years unfolded in New Orleans' Garden District in 2000. The work, commissioned by The Vega Foundation with production support from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Sadie Coles HQ and Sprüth Magers, received its theatrical premiere at the New York Film Festival in September. Alongside it, Syms premieres Ex Voto, an ensemble drama set in a New York apartment in the small hours after a wrap party has ended. A director and her two performers — an established actor and a rising star — linger, intoxicated and unwilling to go home, in scenes that drift between intimacy and disorientation as the director attempts to lecture on the universe's eleven dimensions and the night slips out of her grasp. At the front of the gallery, Syms has installed the newest iteration of Dominica Publishing, her long-running project that operates simultaneously as an artwork and a functioning shop for printed matter — a place where ideas are made public and publics form around ideas. Syms, born in 1988, trained at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Bard College. Her first feature film, The African Desperate (2022), drew wide acclaim, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2023, and her recent solo exhibitions include presentations at the Walker Art Center and the Saint Louis Art Museum this year.