A Conversation with Wes Lang and Eli Roth: Paint Away The Demons

American artist Wes Lang sits down with film director and actor Eli Roth to discuss his latest body of work titled “The Black Paintings”. The series consists of 96 paintings that will be exhibited at Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery from 7 September 2024 to 9 March 2025. Alongside the show at Newport Street Gallery, an exhibition of 96 drawings is on show at HENI Gallery from 27 September to 22 November 2024. Central to all of Lang’s work is his desire to motivate audiences to lead fulfilling lives, and to believe in themselves. In particular, the works featured were produced in reaction to what Lang calls ‘the prevailing narrative of negativity’ in the world: “I really wanted to sit down and make a body of work that shows people that all this noise and all these divisive faces of evil that we’re told matter don’t have to consume your mind and the way you feel about the world.”