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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Alia Farid
Alia Farid
Elsewhere
★★★☆☆
There is no answer in the work. Its cause and the object become enmeshed in a bland, exoticized mess.
Maja Malou Lyse
Maja Malou Lyse
Things to Come
★★★★★
Eros is dead. Long live Eros.
Richard Hunt
Richard Hunt
Metamorphosis
★★★★★
A dictionary for self-determination written in phrases as they were being invented.
Siobhan Liddell
Siobhan Liddell
Been and Gone
★★☆☆☆
A twee aesthetics native to a grandmother’s mantlepiece collection of tourist souvenirs and devotional figurines.
New Contemporaries
★☆☆☆☆
This edition spells ‘stasis’ more than most, and the selectors are to blame.
Marina Xenofontos
Marina Xenofontos
Public Domain
★★★☆☆
There’s an unfortunate ‘emerging artist’ vibe to this handful of readymade sculptures.
