This is an uninspired re-staging of Kilfa’s intriguing installation at Camden Art Centre, only assembled opaquely and with a couple of extra but missable works.
Atiéna R. Kilfa Primitive Tales
Atiéna R. Kilfa
Primitive Tales
Cabinet, London
Cabinet, London
★☆☆☆☆
On until 11 November 2023
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Michael Simpson
Michael Simpson
★★★★☆
In this meditation of surface disguised as a study of objects, neither is a truer likeness of the events.
Oh, the Storm
Oh, the Storm
★☆☆☆☆
This exhibitions is trying to explain the concept of ‘crazy paving’ to a blind man. It’s impossible to tell where a work ends and the wall begins.
Pauline Boty
Pauline Boty
A Portrait
★★★★☆
This exhibition mixes the woman and her legend, but without the air of mystery she enjoyed during her lifetime.
Some May Work as Symbols: Art Made in Brazil, 1950s–70s
★★★★☆
Art history can catch modernity in splitting from the past and thus from itself.
Tesfaye Urgessa
Tesfaye Urgessa
Prejudice and Belonging
★★★★★
Urgessa’s figures are contorted in love, death, or merely life.
Talar Aghbashian
Talar Aghbashian
Solace of the Afterimage
★★☆☆☆
The carpet dealer gallerist’s zeal reveals the work’s lamentable inadequacy.
