If only they were smaller, Piñera Ballo’s paintings would be a great hit in the shopping centre gallery your ex-army uncle just opened in Surrey. He’s gambling with the family’s savings, you condescend, but so is Pace with their show. The market for “young” artists is crashing. Who in London, precisely, would buy 6-meter-wide Cuban beach souvenirs? Surrey, at least, knows its own taste.
Alejandro Piñeiro Bello Entre El Día Y La Noche
Alejandro Piñeiro Bello
Entre El Día Y La Noche
★☆☆☆☆
On until 28 September 2024
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Dayanita Singh
Dayanita Singh
★★☆☆☆
Singh’s pictures cold have been made by at least three other Frith Street artists.
Trackie McLeod
Trackie McLeod
FRUIT II
★★☆☆☆
“Working-class” and “queer” appear in the collateral as obligatory. What doesn’t is “white”.
I'm so gay for you
★★☆☆☆
This “celebration of queerness” is no orgy
Karimah Ashadu
Karimah Ashadu
Tendered
★★☆☆☆
Ashadu’s films are as banal as they are overbought with glib signifiers.
Soufiane Ababri
Soufiane Ababri
Their mouths were full of bumblebees
★★☆☆☆
Ababri’s paintings for the Grindr generation are more cartoonish than they are from life.
Maso Nakahara
Maso Nakahara
Floating Through Time
★★★★☆
Biblical floods, the comet’s fall, and the odd tsunami mercilessly toss Nakahara’s protagonists about.
