Celia Hempton

Transplant

★★★☆☆

On until 30 November 2024

This exhibition’s three shows in one. Surveillance, reconstruction, demolition: the canvases trace a dystopian life cycle. It’s not immediately clear where one ends and the next begins, however, because Hempton’s thick brushstrokes hit the surfaces with a studied, low-information impasto. Building sites, traffic webcams, and a surgeon’s POV live-stream (!) mix in a mess of severed arteries.

Confusion is Hempton’s favourite trick. The panels play scale, time, and location but even the odd landscape in this show of odd-ones-out brings no conclusion to this winding storyline. Sense finally returns only outside the gallery, as does longing for the unruly canvasses’ promise.


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★★☆☆☆

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Roland Knowlden

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★★★☆☆

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transfeminisms Chapter IV at Mimosa House ★☆☆☆☆

transfeminisms Chapter IV: Care and Kinship

★☆☆☆☆

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Turner Prize 2024 at Tate Britain ★★☆☆☆

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★★☆☆☆

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Roni Horn: Seizure of Hope at Hauser and Wirth ★★★★☆

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★★★★☆

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Co Westerik, Centenary at Sadie Coles HQ ★★★☆☆

Co Westerik

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★★★★☆

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