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
notes and notices are short and curt exhibition reviews. Read more:
Iris Touliatou
Iris Touliatou
Outfits
★★★☆☆
These gestures remind the gallery that it is a social space. Unfortunately, they also inadvertently point to its sorry end.
Bethan Huws, Andrea Büttner
Bethan Huws, Andrea Büttner
Birds
★★☆☆☆
Posing as an archaeology of signs, women, and their entanglement, this show is mere research notes.
Ranti Bam
Ranti Bam
Sacred Groves
★★★☆☆
The whimsical freedom of Bam’s overgrown pot plants is an illusion.
Bruno Zhu
Bruno Zhu
License to Live
★☆☆☆☆
Faced with so little, one longs for an even emptier room.
Ain Bailey
Ain Bailey
The Jamaica Project
★☆☆☆☆
Without the gallery’s lush sofas, no one would stop to hear this.
Estate of Yiannis Maniatakos
Estate of Yiannis Maniatakos
Four Paintings
★★★☆☆
Examining the paintings in the gallery’s bright lights doesn’t lift their mystery.
