Artist Alex Margo Arden's exhibition Nothing Personal invites visitors to explore Amy Winehouse's life through carefully recreated objects. Presented across three rooms at the Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation in London, the show brings together hundreds of replicas inspired by items from the singer's home and personal world.
Arden spent five years studying visual records to identify and reproduce details, sometimes comparing numerous editions of the same book to find the closest match. The resulting installation, Library (2026), gathers books spanning fiction, cooking and biographies, offering a broader portrait of Winehouse's interests through the collection as a whole.
Recreating a personal space
In Same Otherwise (2026), Arden reconstructs the fireplace area from Winehouse's home, including familiar books, magazines and decorative objects. Empty spaces where personal photographs once appeared are deliberately left open, drawing attention to what cannot be recreated.
The exhibition also includes a perfume work that releases Chanel No. 5, with the scent set to change during the show's run. Other pieces reimagine a birthday card, ballet slippers, board games and puzzles associated with Winehouse. Rather than presenting isolated objects as definitive clues, Arden arranges them to suggest how everyday belongings can build a more layered understanding of a person.
Numbered acrylic cubes in Display Identification Cubes (2026) extend the artist's own visual language, marking both identified objects and gaps in the story. Nothing Personal is on view through January 23. By combining research, replication and intentional absence, the exhibition points to how contemporary art can preserve cultural memory while leaving room for interpretation.
