Carla Åhlander, Aaron Amar Bhamr

Holding Places

★★★☆☆

On until 27 September 2024

Despite their formal simplicity, Åhlander’s photographs can build an atmosphere. It’s late summer at the family’s lake holiday cottage. The sun shines through the curtains, the building creaks in the breeze, and lunch will be ready soon. Together with the gallery’s fit-out – of brass trimmings, dark carpet, mirrors – the illusion is as good as complete. 

Then Amar Bhamr’s art handler’s readymade breaks it, hard, revealing the whole scene to be make-believe. But not before this artist, too, litters the floor with traces of the season’s turn, thus showing himself to be as sentimental as the rest of us. 


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★★★★☆

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Hannah Black: HUSH MR GIANT at Arcadia Missa ★☆☆☆☆

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★☆☆☆☆

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Oisín Byrne, Not Marble at Amanda Wilkinson ★★☆☆☆

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★★☆☆☆

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Vinca Petersen, Me, Us and Dogs at Edel Assanti ★★★☆☆

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★★★☆☆

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Slawn at Saatchi Yates ★★☆☆☆

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★★☆☆☆

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